Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...terms, it also sets up a maximum of a $1,000 fine and a year's imprisonment for any union member or employer who does violence to person or property during a strike.* Unveiling the bill at a press conference, DiSalle conceded: "Everybody thinks it's too rough, even the girls in my office who typed it up. But if a union man's honest it doesn't mean a day in jail...
However, like forwards in hockey, the midfielders move up and down the field constantly, and depth is needed in the position. Lentz does not have depth now, and the team may be in for some rough games till the rookies develop...
...venture started with an itch to travel, but when Teacher James Hamlett's westbound airliner began bumping through rough air over Texas, the itch turned to queasiness. At Dallas, Hamlett phoned the State Department in dismay. He had quit a job as a French and Spanish teacher at Knoxville College to take a teaching job in Cambodia under the U.S.'s International Educational Exchange program. He still wanted to teach, he told Washington, but could something be done about the air currents? He hung up reassured; there was passage available on a ship, and it did not much...
...Novels. The trouble with most of the famous gunskinners was that they started to believe their own publicity. The legend of the West was growing almost as fast as the reality. The dime novels, with a bow to James Fenimore Cooper, had begun to give a first, rough literary form to the western story. By 1890 the "flesh-times in Kansas" were a thing of the past. Wild Bill Hickok had been tamed by Writer-Promoter Ned Buntline, and was playing in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show ("Fear not, fair maid, you are safe at last with...
...grew up among Indians. He rode a beautiful paint horse named Fritz, and when they stood side by side, it was hard to tell them apart. After Hart came Tom Mix, "the fearless man of the plains," who looked like a mail-order cowboy but was a genuine rough-string rider...