Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...routes. Arrow messages, couriers on mountain ponies, native runners brought word that the Red Chinese had sealed off all the passes into Sikkim and cut the rope and bamboo bridges leading into Bhutan. The only escape route left open was the one the Dalai Lama took, over the rough trails to Towang on the Indian border...
Buick has jolted along a rough road in the last few years. After banner 1955, when it sold 737,879 cars and held third place, Buick skidded steadily to 263,890 sales and fifth place last year. Trying desperately to arrest this slump, Buick Boss Edward Tillottson Ragsdale, 61, radically remodeled the 1959 Buick. But in this year's first quarter, when all other General Motors models rode up, Buick sunk to seventh place as sales slipped another 11%, and its market share dipped from...
...today's other race the lightweights at Annapolis will be rowing on a difficult tidal course which is often quite rough. Besides familiarity with the course, Navy possesses another advantage in its month head-start in getting on the water. The consequent differences in bladework may be a telling margin...
...question of the "diamond in the rough" has caused many furrowed brows among Harvard admissions officials in the past few decades. One of the more difficult cases settled by the Admissions Committee last week concerned a straight-A student from a small Negro high school (74 in the graduating class) in North Carolina. Judging by his demonstrated leadership and by his secondary school record, he was an ideal candidate for admission. Being colored also gave him a definite advantage, since non-whites are given preference over equally-qualified white students. One fact kept this student out of Harvard...
...always the chance that such a program would fail completely due to lack of interest. However, the Admissions Committee probably could assess applicants better after a year of college work; by that additional period of study, the applicants could prove whether or not they were "diamonds in the rough." More important, the benefits of Harvard education would be opened, at least potentially, to students with a wider range of backgrounds--one of the prime aims of Harvard admissions policy...