Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...procedure. Jenkins pointed out that, having elicited through direct examination the Stevens version of the Army-McCarthy dispute, it now became the committee counsel's duty to try to test that version through crossexamination. Having already demonstrated that he was totally unafraid of McCarthy, Jenkins began to rough Stevens up; his way of being impartial was to carry chips on both of his huge shoulders. As he began to cross-examine Stevens, Jenkins' tone grew harsher, he clapped his hands to emphasize his words, he stabbed at the table with his fingers. Bob Stevens stood before the onslaught...
Love Affair (Felicia Sanders; Columbia). An intense lament with a fine tune, sung in a rough-tender style that puts Songstress Sanders right on top of the vocal heap...
...Crimson shell will contain the same heavy crew which beat M.I.T. on the Charles. Rough water prevented time trials this week, but regular workouts have gone well and Love expects his eight to be up for the race...
...minutes, Mrs. Krone crouched in the stifling trunk on her hands and knees as the automobile jolted at high speed over rough roads. Then the car stopped. Miller got out and tried to open the trunk. He failed. Mrs. Krone had crawled in with the key in her hand, and the door had locked on closing. Cursing her wildly, he demanded that she pass the key out to him. He had driven the automobile to a high and lonely bluff overlooking the Kern River and he threatened to run it over the cliff if she refused...
...From his rough & tumble boyhood surroundings in Baltimore's Little Italy, hard by the waterfront, Thomas Ludwig John D'Alesandro Jr. fought his way toward the political big time. He never lost an election, became mayor of Baltimore, and was ready for greater things...