Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rough Time. Basically the positions of Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver on the discrimination issue were not far apart. The fact that Kefauver's direct and politically conscious way of stating his case was more effective only proved a larger point. The basic division on segregation between the Democratic Deep South and the liberal Democratic North (critically dependent on the Negro vote in key states) is now out in the open; there are rough times ahead for the man who would be moderate with both sides...
...reserve for liability claims. By the time Rutherfurd and his men had finished editing the McGinnis management's books, they had a total charge against income of $4,395,000. To this they added a $634,000 operating loss for the month of December, caused largely by rough weather and aging equipment, then subtracted the whole amount from the previous eleven-month figure...
...performance of Oedipus, which would not have the benefit of sets. With the new emphasis on harmony and unity, all kinds of wonders could be worked. The Cambridge community must look with favor upon the combined efforts of Schwalb and the H.D.C. As Yeats himself says hopefully, "And what rough beast its hour come round at last slouches towards Bethlehem to be born...
Goalies Marr and Dennis Doyle of Williams allowed seven goals in the last period Tuesday after taking a rough verbal beating, although Marr claims the heckling had nothing to do with the collapse...
...always have a bed but don't always have a girl, conscientious Gordon has a girl but not a bed he can take her to. He is also too poor to marry his Rosemary, and this means that his love life consists of pressing her against the "rough damp bricks" of viaducts and alleys...