Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...equipped constabulary. In 1949 a few foreign correspondents flew in to inspect this little dictatorship; Governor Lacson turned them right around and flew them out. Occasionally, a charge of rape or murder against Lacson reached the court but nothing ever came of it. Even if he was a bit rough, he delivered solidly on election day. President Quirino's Liberal administration could not afford to quibble...
...colleagues consider him a formidable opponent who hangs on like a bulldog in crossexamination. He has none of Ray Jenkins' color, flamboyance or diffusiveness. He is scarcely as humorous as Joseph Nye Welch; on the other hand, Chadwick may be better able than Welch to cope with Washington rough-and-tumble. Said one fellow Chester lawyer: "I can't imagine McCarthy getting Chad so riled up that he'd break down and cry." This week Chadwick went to Washington to work for Watkins...
...Wolf of Man." U Nu is a man of rough and unfamiliar plainness. His head is round, his mouth seems rather large for his face, and his brown eyes fix visitors with peculiar intentness. His manner is sedate; his piety is apparent, and sincere. He betrays no concern that a Rangoon magazine is currently serializing a novel called Man the Wolf of Man (written in 1943) with a remarkable autobiographical preface by its author...
...Swiss court for a divorce hearing, glamorous Socialite Joanne Connelly Sweeny Patiño, 23, told a sympathetic judge that her husband, Bolivian Tin Heir Jaime Ortiz-Patiño, was "a real sadist, who often beat me." Matter of fact, complained Joanne without further explanation, things really got rough on the Isle of Capri: "On our honeymoon he beat me so much I had a miscarriage...
There are almost as many reasons for merging as there are companies willing to merge. In the rough-and-tumble competition that has returned to many industries during the past year, mergers have frequently been undertaken in self-defense. The biggest companies in the textile industry are now in a great race to become still bigger, combining the efficient new mills of the South with the going industry of the North, and the fast-growing new synthetics with older fabrics that are still in demand. In autos, the independents are joining forces to compete against the Big Three...