Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Total figures for the Russian armed services have never been revealed, but the most reliable estimates put them roughly at 4,000,000, with another 1,300,000 men in the European satellite armies and perhaps 3,500,000 in Red China's vast army. The U.S. has reduced its own forces by 600,000 men during the past two years, and now has a force of slightly less than 3,000,000. All told, NATO can muster about 6,000,000 men, giving it a rough parity in Europe, though in Asia the Red Chinese have a huge...
Caribbean Winters. For all their long season, the rough-and-ready Negro leagues could not keep Campy busy enough, and he took to spending his winters playing Caribbean baseball. Latin embellishments added much to the color, if not the caliber of the game. Puerto Rican fans passed the hat for him when he hit a pair of home runs; Campy returned the kindness by distributing a 100-lb. bag of potatoes in the slums. In Mexico he learned all the things that could happen to a baseball in thin mountain air. "You could hit a ball nine miles...
...ardent reader of TIME, I feel sure that she is going to want to have a part in selecting the $100 worth of prize." In Omaha, George M. McCulloch probably expressed the feelings of winners and losers alike after playing what turned out to be promotion's rough 5,000-to-1 shot. He wrote: "Brother...
...half a dozen simple sentences, unrehearsed and devoid of speechwriters' polish, the President of the U.S. raised the conference from the legalese in which it was beginning to flounder, and seized the world's imagination with a rough-hewn plan to free mankind of the fear of surprise attack...
...Filipino fight fans took exception to Featherweight Champion Sandy Sadler's rough-and-ready tactics in a nontitle fight with Manila favorite Flash Elorde. While Sandy was firing at Flash with head and elbow, the crowd was taking pot shots at the ring with stones and pop bottles. The referee penalized the champ so often for dirty fighting that Elorde had no trouble winning a unanimous decision...