Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus, even if Martin gets healthy, Fitzgerald gets consistent, Mullin meets expectations, and depth holds out, it will be rough going for cross-country next year. The season will be tough, but McCurdy has a reputation for making his squads even tougher...
...limestone facing were used extensively in the planning to avoid giving the buildings "the appearance of large chunks of brick," according to Shepley, Bullfinch, Richardson and Abbott, the architects. The living room of each suite will have a broad floor-to-ceiling heavy glass window, and inside walls of rough pumice-stone...
...Rather, it seems, in the glowing days of 1958 Democratic victory, the richest prize in U.S. politics-a prize worth fighting for. And Democrats being Democrats, loving a fight as much as a frolic, the battle for the 1960 nomination shaped up as one of the grandest, free-swinging rough-and-tumbles in years...
...Delayed seven weeks by rough weather and modifications to his sleek jet hydroplane Bluebird, Speedmerchant Donald Campbell tucked a cuddly teddybear mascot into the cockpit with him, roared up and down Lancashire's glassy Lake Coniston at an average speed of 248.62 m.p.h. to smash his own world record (239.07 m.p.h.), promptly declared his ultimate goals were 300 m.p.h. on water, 400 m.p.h. on land (v. the land record of 394.2 m.p.h. set at Bonneville, Utah, in 1947 by the late John Cobb). ¶ "Coaching football is a rotten life," said Michigan's mild-mannered Bennie Oosterbaan...
...vignettes that Chayevsky and the other "agony boys" used to turn out every month. Eventually, the boys got bored themselves. "I didn't get tired of it," said J. P. (Days of Wine and Roses) Miller. "I just couldn't stand it." ¶ The critics were too rough, flailed original dramas more harshly than run-of-the-hoof westerns. Robert Alan Arthur (Man on a Mountain Top) denounced "an incredibly brutal dismissal" of a recent production of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness by the New York Times's J. P. Shanley: "I think this...