Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mold of informality, with Ike and Dulles discussing the Paris sessions, but it actually showed the President of the U.S. as master of ceremonies for the Secretary of State's featured role. Ike spoke briefly at the beginning and end of the program, reading from a rough text which he had written out during the afternoon. Said he of the NATO meeting: "There was one basic purpose implicit in every discussion and debate of the conference. That was the pursuit of a just peace. Not once during the week did I hear any slightest hint of saber-rattling...
...argument: a general staff might 1) drain the separate services of esprit de corps, 2) commit the U.S. to a single, inflexible strategic course that might prove disastrous, and 3) concentrate military power to the extent that a Chief of General Staff could become a man on horseback, riding rough shod over democratic institutions...
...means a proved item. Solid-charge missiles have less thrust than liquid propellants, cannot carry as heavy a warhead per pound of fuel. Critics of solid fuel argue that it requires a canister that can withstand great pressures, that solid fuel blasts off with a jolt that is rough on the missile's complex guidance systems; the Navy insists that it can control the blastoff, but it has not yet tested its technique on the missile. Another key problem: how to shut off the solid-charge propulsion at the precise point needed to drop the missile on target...
...heir. This was the muzhik from Kalinovka whom Stalin commanded to dance the gopak, the hayseed at whom Beria sneered years ago as "our beloved chicken statesman," "our potato politician." When Stalin put Nikita in charge of the Moscow party back in the '30s, Khrushchev used to don navvies' rough clothes, crawl down to visit the sandhogs tunneling out the new subway, take a hand with a pneumatic drill, and talk with the lads in the unprintable language for which, even in the Kremlin, he is famous. The palace courtiers dubbed him "Comrade Lavatory Lover" because Nikita not only insisted...
Schulman tells the tale of a Nevada sheep rancher (Quinn), a rough, good-hearted Italian immigrant whose wife has died, and who goes back to Italy to fetch her sister (Magnani) to bed and board. The new wife soon finds out that he is still in love with the old, that he does not want her to be herself, but only to be "like Rosanna." Impossible. Rosanna was a yes woman; Gioia is one of those passionate natures that take time by the forelock and life by the throat. "You look like a slob!" her husband roars...