Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ORVAL EUGENE FAUBUS (rhymes with raw buss) was born 47 years ago in a rough-cut plank cabin near Greasy Creek, so far back in the Ozarks of northwest Arkansas that the first paved road to the outside world was not completed 'until 1949. when Orval Faubus was a state highway commissioner. He trapped skunk and muskrat to help his family scratch out a living from their hill farm, and trudged five miles a day to a one-room country school. Eager for book learning, he finally managed to graduate from Huntsville High School when he was 24, three...
...year overseas business, but in the process achieved an understanding of the wider world of trade and global politics that is unmatched among Politburocrats. To two generations of Western diplomats and trade negotiators, this brisk and comprehending commissar has seemed "the best of a bad lot." To the rough, tough muzhik Khrushchev, he is the useful Mr. Worldly-Wise of the Russian proverb who "knows where the shrimps stay in winter." Today, as in Stalin's time, Mikoyan serves indispensably-and survives. Says a Briton who has watched Mikoyan for years: "He knows how to jump at the right...
...from 75 to 200; the dead included two navy captains and the commandant of the maritime police. The army colonel in charge of mop-up operations was wounded. Three rebel navy officers, 13 enlisted men and three maritime police were captured and flown to Havana to face a rough round of questioning on how the revolt got started. Batista's troops began a house-to-house search for a reported 2,000 guns distributed to civilians from the arsenal...
...movie, Kings Go Forth, was recognized at the airport with the ecstatic cry, "C'est Frankie!", engulfed, hand-passed over a tidal wave of hysterical women to a waiting Cadillac while Actress Linda Christian, there to meet him, was left behind. Tremoloed a shaken Frankie: "It was rough...
...trial ground down from Darwin across the horrible roads of Queensland, rough creek crossings and rocky stretches ripped tires and shattered windshields. By the time the cars reached Brisbane, the first seven places were held by sturdy little Volkswagens. Well up in the running, though, was Mrs. Doris Isabel ("Geordie") Anderson, 46, a Brisbane housewife and mother of six, who was driving her own brand-new, cream and grey Mark VIII Jaguar-a $6,750 job complete with automatic transmission...