Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bought them an Irish mare that showed signs of speed, and they took their stable to the races. To eke out their small winnings. Pat, the smaller of the two (he carries a solid 160 lbs. on a 5-ft.-11-in. frame), peeled off poundage and learned the rough art of the jumping jockey. Mike sharpened his skills as trainer. Both of them did so well that last season Pat was the country's leading steeplechase jock, and Mike was chosen by Mrs. Ogden Phipps to take over from her retiring trainer, Pete Bostwick...
...bestselling first book. I Leap Over the Wall (TIME, Jan. 30, 1950), had a certain Rip van Winkle-ish appeal: it drew the portrait of a woman trained in the leisurely graces of pre-World War I society trying to cope with the rough-and-tumble era of World War II, after nearly three decades of being out of the world. In The Called and the Chosen, continuing her literary role as a kind of Thomas Merton-in-reverse, 59-year-old Author Baldwin leaps again...
...makes it rough on the kind of passing on which the Crimson relies, and its attack, involving hard-pressing half-backs, puts great pressure on its own defending fullbacks...
...Cortlandt is a long and hilly course and entails much running over rough ground. As a result of this, the field was more widely separated than usual...
Although construction plans have not yet been finished, work is going on in what Teele described as "phase one"--a rough outline--of development of the Holyoke-Mt. Auburn-Dunster-Mass. Ave. block. Administrative offices and a Health Center for both undergraduates and graduates are to be built in that area...