Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pick up his next assignment. During the work on a cover, he walks a mile before breakfast and does elaborate calisthenics to combat easel fatigue. The one exercise he hates is mowing the lawn. He is seriously thinking, he says, of planting the entire area with green concrete of rough texture...
...since adopted the helicopter as its answer to the atomic bomb, and proposes to send rotor-topped whirlybirds hurrying inland from carriers far at sea, to establish the beachheads of the future. The Army has begun supplementing trucks with helicopters, and, in so doing, is regaining a disregard for rough terrain it has not been able to afford since the day of the mule. And today no naval aviator leaves a carrier deck without knowing that a helicopter is hovering near by, ready to swoop and pluck him from the sea if he is forced down...
...three days it was clear that under the rough police handling, the situation was likely to get worse instead of better. General Winterton ordered them off the streets, and put U.S. troops of the 351st Infantry Regiment to the job of restoring order. It was a belated but successful move. The Triestini cheered the Americans, and order was restored within a few hours, without any more casualties. But the toll of the three days' work stood thus: among the demonstrators, six dead, 56 wounded or injured, more than 100 arrested; for the police, no deaths, 72 wounded...
...another way, President Wriston calls this study of books and ideas "the shock we needed around here." The president, who doesn't believe students can be given too much work, is delighted the plan is giving sophomores and freshmen a rough time...
...opposing, "catastrophic" theory holds that the universe was formed by a vast explosion that gave it the rough outlines of its present structure. Since the great blowup, the universe has been expanding, but other changes in it have been "local...