Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even in the rough-and-tumble of Italian politics, tough, indefatigable Amintore Fanfani excelled at infighting. Seven months ago, when the Chamber of Deputies with only seven votes to spare invested him Premier, it seemed that he had at last achieved his ambition. He was a man with three crucial jobs: Premier, Foreign Minister, boss of the Christian Democratic Party. But last week, his triumph reduced to ashes, Amintore Fanfani renounced all his jobs and his dream...
...London's Sunday Express, the Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, 84, "Red Dean" of Canterbury, had a heartwarming spiritual reflection. "Stalin was a rough and stern man," mused the Dean. "But God's eye is a big eye and sees everything, good and bad. To know all is to forgive all, so I think that, from heaven's point of view, Stalin is safe." Just out of curiosity, did the Dean see anything amiss in the Soviet encyclopedia's devoting 78 lines to the Red Dean, only eight to Christ? "Well, you see, I'm alive...
Ever since his boyhood summers in Boothbay Harbor, Me., Sterling Hayden (born John Hamilton) had been running away to sea whenever the going got rough. At 15, he sailed as workaway on a schooner from Connecticut to California. He shipped as fireman on a steamer, fished off the Grand Banks, finally got his master's papers and wound up part owner of a schooner that was supposed to carry passengers from Hawaii to Tahiti. Only when his ship piled up in a gale did the handsome blond sailor finally agree to take a Hollywood offer and a crack...
...rough night for the first trio until then. All three Friar goals were tallied while they were on the ice, as has been the case often this season. Fischer, Higginbottom and Dave Vietze, neverthe-less, were most consistent in bombarding Jim Toomey during the night, but their plays did not click. In the third period alone the first line launched eleven shots on goal...
Major General Leonard Wood, original commander of the Rough Riders, moved up to govern Cuba, and in 90 days stamped out the Aëdes aegypti mosquito, freeing Havana of yellow fever for the first time in 140 years. Four years after the U.S. marched in, it marched...