Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity revealed both offensive and defensive rough edges, but held the UMass five at arms' length throughout the contest. Completing a remarkable 53 per cent of all field goal attempts, the Crimson allowed its opponents a meager 27 per cent...
...hours over targets that his Air Force was later to lock in-Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Odessa, the Crimea. There he made his first headlines. While White was flying Bullitt into Leningrad one day, the )0-38F engine iced up, whereupon White pancaked into a field, hit a few rough spots, went over on his back. Ambassador Bullitt wired President Roosevelt: "Landed upside down. Got out right side up." Later the Russians gave White a Soviet military pilot's license. ("Tommy," quips a Washington wag, "is the only card-carrying member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...going to lay the facts before you -the rough with the smooth," said President Eisenhower. "Some of these security facts are reassuring; others are not-they are sternly demanding...
Time was when fathers often passed the craft of painting on to their children, and sometimes created artistic dynasties of the first order. Some of the greatest painters of the Renaissance grew great at home. The practice never took hold in the rough and tumble of American life, though Revolutionary War Hero Charles Willson Peale did raise two painting sons, one of whom, first-named Raphaelle, surpassed the father. But the 20th century does offer an outstanding example of an American artist following in his father's footsteps. The one is Andrew Wyeth (TIME...
...final $1,000 of the $2,385 entry fee that gave him the privilege of watching Nadir horse around in the $277,150 Garden State Stakes, richest race in the world. To make the picture complete, Nadir had something of a cutup in the saddle too: rough-riding Willie Hartack, who bounces in the irons like a novice riding for his life. But both clowns kept their minds on their work: Nadir finished an easy two lengths in front of R. D. Prewitt's Terra Firma, and Willie set a new record with his 41st stakes victory...