Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rough Wolverines jumped to a quick 2-0 lead in the opening period and stayed ahead at 4-2 in the second stanza, although the determined Crimson skaters consistently managed to fight the puck into the Michigan zone. Center Bill Cleary was the varsity's offensive standout as he broke the all-time NCAA scoring record with his second goal unassisted in the middle period...
...back of the Wolverines' front wall, however, will be two burly defensemen ready to show the Eastern teams how rough their Western sport can be. Mike Buchanan, a former Chicago Blackhawks' prospect, and Bob Schiller start at the blue line for Michigan...
...were invaded as part of an assault on Formosa, seemed to flatly contradict Eden's hopes that Dulles was coming to agree that the islands should be given up. In Britain, while Eden was aloft on the way to Bangkok, the Labor Party was giving the government a rough time. "The danger of war in the Far East arises not from Chinese but from American aggression," cried Bevanite Harold Wilson. "Surely it is clear by now that peace will not be insured until Chiang Kai-shek and his chief lieutenants have been safely stowed away on St. Helena...
...Prague, where President Antonin Zapotocky himself attended the games, the arena was packed with Heroes of Labor, Deserving Teachers of the People, Communist Activists. Cheers for the Canadians were diffident, and the game was rough. Czechs, who object to the Canadians' enthusiastic body checking, climbed up the backs of Penticton players and slashed with their skates, an unforgivable sin in the West. The Czech referees' whistles were remarkably silent. After the Vs had tied one game, 3-3, and won the next, 6-0, Penticton's player-coach, Grant Warwick, had to skate around the ice blowing...
...though the picture is perhaps a little rough on the medical profession, it should be a most effective and pleasant cure for hypochondria...