Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arkansas' Democratic primary last month, first-term Governor Francis Cherry ran 45,000 votes ahead of his nearest opponent, Orval E. Faubus, but two other candidates received enough votes to force Cherry into a runoff. In the overtime period, the game got rough...
...entered the White House after a rough presidential campaign in which he made up his mind that the newsmen acted like a bunch of district attorneys who were more concerned to trap him than get information. This he no longer believes. He no longer feels that he has a hostile audience. In short, after a fairly stormy passage during the last year and a half, he has come out into what seems to him to be calmer water. The economic situation at home is improved, peace has been preserved, and the press conference, which used to be a crisis...
Meanwhile, the chunky, ruddy-faced Teddy bear with the walrus mustache had become Civil Service commissioner, New York City police commissioner, Assistant Secretary of the Navy and the most famed Rough Rider on San Juan Hill. He ran successfully for governor of New York and Vice President of the U.S. while bands blared A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, and admirers extravagantly told of his exploits (Finley Peter Dunne as "Mr. Dooley" wrote: "In Wounded Knee he busts a broncho that has kilt almost th' entire male popylation; busts it so har-rd 'twud dhraw...
...relishes rough going, Sather the artist is curiously gentle. He portrays the half-hidden things of nature-a fish in a clump of water weeds, a frog squatting in shadow. He draws clearly and delicately, in a style that seems more Chinese than European. His is not the sort of art to startle the world into acceptance, yet it may well grow to command great respect. He is only 37, and wholly dedicated...
...more than a question of manners. There is in much of our early fiction-in Fielding and Smollett, for example-a lot of rough-and-tumble, knockabout brutality, as much a reflection of its time as Hogarth's pictures were. But this new violence, with its sadistic overtones, is quite different. It is not simply coarse, brutal from a want of refinement and nerves, but genuinely corrupt, fundamentally unhealthy and evil. It does not suggest the fairground, the cattle market, the boxing booth, the horseplay of exuberant young males. It smells of concentration camps and the basements of secret...