Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elegant Marquis of Tenerife, decreed that the noncombatants be rounded up into huge concentration camps. In Havana province alone, 50,000 prisoners starved to death. After the U.S.S. Maine exploded in Havana harbor, the U.S. outcry brought a declaration of war, sent the Marines and Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders to free Cuba...
...containing a suspected cause of allergic reaction, the patient reacts all right-but to the pressure of the patch, not to the supposedly allergenic substance. In their practice the doctors found that many patients who say they are allergic to wool are actually irritated by the wool's rough fibers: properly conducted patch tests show that they do not react to pure wool, or the wool in their particular sweaters. For girls, wearing a cotton blouse under the wool sweater usually solves the problem...
...energy. "I had no worry about her falling or wriggling off a bed," Myrtis Walker says, "because she just stayed exactly where she was put." But soon her father, the Rev. Lorenda R. Walker, took a pastorate in Columbus. The trip to Ohio in a model A Ford was rough, and Marclan came down with pneumonia. At Columbus' Children's Hospital, doctors found something worse: she had sickle-cell anemia. That was early in 1938. It was two years before she went home from the hospital...
...said it would be fine if the classic opener was carried a step further -the long street, the shot of the marshal entering. The marshal takes a quick draw and fires and fires and misses." By the end of the evening, Hargrove and Orr had worked out a rough plot, chosen their title. Hargrove picked NBC's Gunsmoke as his target, he says, "because it is a tremendously solid show. The characters are sharply defined. It is easier to spoof a good western. A bad western doesn't have anything to get your hands on." Ungrateful Gunsmoke producers...
...seconds before making up his mind to shoot or pass," says St. Louis' Cliff Hagan. Rival coaches often pay Baylor the compliment of assigning him a taller man, try to block up the middle on his drives. Baylor has quickly adapted himself to the rough tactics of the pros. Says St. Louis Coach Ed Macauley: "When he's dribbling with his right hand, just watch his left hand. He uses it like a meat hook...