Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...game turned rough in the closing minutes, with personal fouls and clipping penalties against each team. McLaughin advanced Harvard into Yale territory after the kickoff but the offense stalled...
Other segments of American student life emerge from the translation exercises. "American football is a very rough game." The sentence for translation which cuts most deeply into America's way of life reads, "Music is of no use to me, said the 'clever' American boy; "it won't help me to get money...
McLean succumbed to his old nemesis, the second hill of the course, as the rough terrain proved too much for his already injured ankle. He was forced to drop out of the race at the three mile mark...
...Rough Path. The week's accomplishments spread new polish on a State Department career that so far has not been easy. An engineer like his father, and a Middle East oil expert as well, Hoover was swept into his post after a piece of spectacular diplomacy in 1954. Iran and England were at angry odds over revenues from the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.'s nationalized oilfields. Dulles chose Hoover to find common ground, asked him to find it in 45 days. The 45 days stretched to eleven months; Hoover winged constantly between Washington, London and Teheran, eventually hammered...
...Bruins, however, will present a problem quite different than any the Crimson has faced this year. Brown has a tendency to play rough bruising soccer--not entirely within the rules. If officials are not careful in a Brown game, it often gets away from them. This occurred in the Bruin-UConn contest Oct. 30, when a full-scale riot developed on the field...