Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rough on H.A.A...
Coles pointed out that when the Key did not fulfill these duties, friction inevitably arose between the H.A.A., the managers, and the visiting players. "We assume these responsibilities, and when we don't carry them out, its rough on the H.A.A., the teams and their managers," he said...
...foreign broadcast last week, "is 'Welcome' . . . to foreign traders." The traders who march on Moscow find bureaucrats with whom they must do business hard and evasive bargainers. After three months' canvassing, the spokesman for twelve Lancashire textile-machinery firms admitted that "the going is sort of rough," and went home emptyhanded. Others have had better luck...
...that gave a skyscraper dimension to his compositions. In Janitor, one of the show's best items, Zerbe set an old man with vertically furrowed face and sharply structural features against a background of high buildings. The man's face seems to be made of the same rough masonry as the building; Zerbe mixes mica, sand or flint with his plastic to give a rougher surface. Three Doors is a semi-abstraction in quiet reds, mauves and greens which conveys the dilapidated dignity of the hallways of old brownstone tenements...
...Chicago's rough & tough Health Commissioner Herman Bundesen has his way, the city's 70 hospitals will not soon forget it, either. He ordered inspections to make sure that all were complying with the rules. To Chicagoans generally, the case highlighted a painfully familiar problem: the red tape that a patient must fight through to get into a hospital bed. Said one Chicago woman: "You rush to the hospital to have your baby and they keep you standing at the desk while they ask you your life's history. After all that, they inquire...