Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some 30,000 Gold Coasters were waiting restlessly when he arrived. He made his apologies-"Man, I've been scoffing plenty with the P.M."-and started to play. Some fans dodged up to the bandstand and started to dance. One ran afoul of the cops, who roughed him up, leaving Louis depressed. "Man, that's why I left New Orleans. I don't like rough stuff...
...over Church Leader and former State Senator Philip Hitchcock. Victory after an unexpectedly hard campaign (TIME, May 14) gave McKay the right to face Democratic Senator Wayne Morse (stung by a 17% primary vote given a non-campaigning service-station operator named Woodrow Wilson Smith) in November. By pitting rough Doug McKay against articulate Wayne Morse, Oregon promised itself an exciting political season...
...winning ball games was not enough, off the field the young man was about as colorful as the third fellow from the end in the class picture. The few real fans in town felt like Huck Finn trying to warm up to the Widow Douglas: "It was rough . . . considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways." Robin Roberts was an earnest young man interested only in giving the enemy its lumps, while the fans, as one of them explains it today, were looking for a player "who can give us lumps in the throat...
...with the easy assurance of a man who has obviously read quite a few case histories of slum children. But when Frankie was good, nobody paid any attention to him; so he decided to be bad. That settled, he developed a morbid fear of being touched; he began to rough his mother up; he led his gang in brutal street fights; finally he decided "to bump a guy" who had offended him. "I feel loose," he tells his accomplice as they wait giggling in the shadows for their victim, like little boys fumbling in a dark closet for the cookie...
...Rough. In Toronto, the Telegram carried a classified ad: "MUST SELL OR GET DIVORCE: six irons, putter, three woods, one bag, a pocket full of balls...