Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story about an eruption of shootings and gangster violence in Montreal's east-end tenderloin district; the Canadian edition of TIME carrying Riggan's story had appeared on the newsstands only the day before. Riggan's doorbell rang, and when he opened the door, two rough-looking strangers pushed their way in. "Did you do that article on the East End?" one asked. When Riggan replied that he had, one of the men whipped out a knife and held it to the newsman's stomach while the other smashed Riggan in the face with his fist...
...molecule is not unusually complicated, but extremely fragile. Any kind of rough treatment, such as heat or acids, makes it fall into fragments that cannot kill any kind of germ. To use the customary chemical methods on penicillin, says Dr. Sheehan, "would be like attempting to repair a fine watch with a blacksmith's sledge and anvil." The critical problem was to find a way to bond a carbon atom and a nitrogen atom to form a chemical ring in the heart of the molecule. Avoiding many standard reagents as too violent, and keeping his solutions at room temperature...
...with Poet-Pundit Ezra Pound) which ferociously lit into the popular romanticism ("chaos of Enoch Ardens, laughing Jennys, ladies with pains, good-for-nothing Guineveres"). He introduced cubism to Britain, then characteristically turned on it fiercely when cubism became popular. In a series of novels written in prose as rough-edged as a raw nerve (Tarr, The Apes of God, Rotting Hill), he mocked and mauled socialists, his fellow intellectuals, the middle class ("dry-rotted yes-people who are clay in the hands of carpenters"). After his fashion, he gave the U.S. some rare admiration-"a great promiscuous grave into...
Quietly and inflexibly, Shanks laid it on the line to state officials: either taxes come down or the Pru, one of the state's biggest taxpayers, would move out. The fight that followed was so rough that more than one vice president got sick and had to retire. Finally Shanks won: New Jersey reduced the Pru's taxes. Says Shanks: "I'd hate to think what would have happened if I'd failed...
...Nevertheless, the moviemakers have seen to it that the picture comes to a bloody climax in one of the most thrillingly realistic bullfights -starring the famous Mexican matador, Fermin Rivera-ever seen in a commercial film. It's great stuff for the youngsters, but apt to be rough on people of more tender years...