Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rough Edges. Just as bridgedom's envious experts now call Goren's hard-earned credentials into question, so a younger, hungrier Charles Goren sniped at Ely Culbertson. Ely, cried Goren in the early days, was all through-and had never been really great anyhow. The inner drive that carried Charlie Goren past Culbertson was sharpened by the rough edges of poverty in his Philadelphia childhood. The son of Russian-born Jewish immigrants, he grew up in a brawling district of "Jews, Irish and Irish." Charlie made up for small size with pugnacity, endurance, and indifference to pain. Recalls...
...Bill Hartack, 24, the nation's winningest jockey for the past three years in a row, booted home the 2,000th winner of his career aboard Herald Wind at Atlantic City, N.J. Three days later he was set down 15 days for rough riding and throwing a punch at Fellow Jockey Jimmy Johnson, his second suspension in less than a month...
...constitution, incorporating strong executive powers demanded by De Gaulle and offering the overseas areas partnership under the Tricolor or independence from the mother country, was expected to have rough going in one or two territories...
When we think of Shakespearean productions, our minds usually turn to the Stratford-on-Avon Festival and the Old Vic. These are now established institutions; the former began on the playwright's tercentenary in 1864 and after rough sledding has continued as we know it from 1879, while the Old Vic has been a home for Shakespeare since...
Modern Outlook. "Almost every anecdote concerning her is an encounter," says Author Kronenberger, and Marlbo-rough's Duchess is so rich in anecdotes that it becomes a series of unforgettable encounters. There are anecdotes in the grand manner-such as old Sarah marching into the law courts to forbid the sale of one of the Duke's presentation swords, crying: "Shall I suffer the sword which my lord would have carried to the gates of Paris to be sent to the pawnbroker's and have the diamonds picked out one by one?" There are anecdotes...