Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last year's team lost only one match, to Exeter. It has an equally rough schedule this year. It has matches remaining with Wesleyan, Williams, Amherst, and Yale. The Yale match, played here this year, will close out the season...
Vera Cruz (Hecht-Lancaster; United Artists), billed as "The Battle of the Giants," is apparently an attempt to decide the heavyweight championship of Hollywood. In one corner stands Burt Lancaster, congenital desperado, and in the other Gary Cooper, Southern gentle man dispossessed by the Civil War. The rough stuff gets under way somewhere south of the border, around 1866. Bullets squeal, gun butts crunch, death screams gurgle, bombs go bam! And when a man is all tuckered out, some señorita is like as not to come slinking up with a rose in her teeth and a pigsticker...
...Greeks have a word for emigres who, once poverty-stricken, return to visit their native land flush with the prosperity of half a lifetime in the U.S. They call them heelobowie, a rough approximation of "hello boy." In many a Greek village, the returning heelobowie ranks almost as a patron saint; each village strives to outdo its neighbors in providing a lavish welcome for him, and even after his return to the land of his adoption, legends of his largesse live on among the villagers...
...with me," writes a schoolmaster, "with every appearance of belief in the divine truths." "He was so shy," reports a visitor, "that [his mother] was forced to send for him three times before she could persuade him to come into the drawing room." "He was loud, even coarse . . . a rough, curly-headed boy . . . nothing more," says a Harrow schoolmate...
DEALER RESTRICTIONS, by which companies prevent distributors from unloading surplus stocks outside their geographic areas, are in for a rough time from the Justice Department. Government lawyers have filed an antitrust suit against Philco for a clause in its contracts that gives the parent company the right to buy up (at cost) and sell back to the distributor any product that he sells outside his area or to an unauthorized dealer. Justice's charge: the clause eliminates competition, boycotts nonfranchised stores...