Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...independents, competition from the Big Three is rough; and when American reported this week on its first full fiscal year since the Nash-Hudson merger, the balance sheet showed it. In the year ending Sept. 30, American lost $6,956,425. Stockholders found some cheer in the fact that it was only about half the 1954 losses (and it was well below Studebaker-Packard's $19,301,513 loss for 1955's first nine months). And 88% of American's 1955 losses came in the first six months, before savings made from the consolidation of Nash...
...over, the Government was ready to compromise and accept one Mormon head in token payment. Brigham Young chose Lee. In 1870, Lee was excommunicated from the Mormon Church. Insulted with impunity, he still kept his chin up, and when Bishop Roundy "shook hands & said, You are [now] as Rough as an old Grisley, I replied . . . Every Dog will have his day & a Bitch two afternoons . . . Now is your day. By & By it will be my day." But in 1876, 19 years after the massacre, Lee was tried before an all-Mormon jury and in 1877 was executed by a firing...
Ring-wise fight fans took it for granted that Welterweight Champion Carmen Basilio would have a rough night at the Boston Garden. If Challenger Tony DeMarco stayed on his feet for 15 rounds-so the speculation went-home-town officials would give him the title. All afternoon before the bout, odds on the champ dropped accordingly. By fight time, the price was 6 to 5. Basilio's handlers filed an angry beef with the Massachusetts Boxing Commission. "What gives?" wailed Co-Manager Johnny de John. "My boy is getting a bum deal...
...more than anything in the world is a garden of her own, as rare in Catford Street as a tree in Brooklyn. By hook and by crook she starts one, but a gang of the neighborhood's teen-age toughs stomps it out. The leader of the gang, a rough-hewn Irish Tom Sawyer by the name of Tip Malone, makes his private peace with Lovejoy, and pretty soon she is his Becky Thatcher. The children start a new garden by carting away 13 buckets of earth from the off-limits garden of the toffs who live on the nearby...
Stassen maintained that because of the difficulties of patrolling the rough border country and probable intervention by clandestine communist groups, a series of serious incidents would be inevitable. Newspaper headlines about American soldiers who were involved in Arab-Jewish incidents would tend to dissipate American prestige. This loss would be dangerous, since United States esteem is an important stabilizing influence in the area, he said...