Word: roughness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Right now, no. Politics is really rough, and I’m actually quite sensitive...
...gunning to vet this petite nymphomaniac. And that job at Goldman seems unlikely too—how many investment banks want to hire the girl whose claim to fame is that she daily exposes her sex life online? And keeping up this sort of celebrity will be rough, because age is going to catch up with her at some point: "My Favorite Position," when written by an arthritic, sex-crazed geriatric, doesn’t quite make for the most thrilling tale of sexual adventure...
...open the only small window, with its rust-pitted iron bars. When I succeeded in pulling the knob and the window swung open, flakes of peeling paint as well as a shower of dust fell to the floor. The only furniture in the room was three narrow beds of rough wooden planks, one against the wall, the other two stacked one on top of the other. A cement toilet was built into one corner. Never in my life had I been in or even imagined a place so primitive and filthy. The guard came back with several sheets of toilet...
...large sum of money. You will be able to finance your world revolution with that money.'' Perhaps, being an older person, the teacher felt some sense of responsibility. She asked me, ''Are you sure your collection is valuable? How much would you say it is worth?'' ''As a rough estimate, at least a million yuan (($500,000 at the 1966 exchange rate)),'' I told her. The Red Guards were impressed. The teacher was by now anxious to save the treasures, but she was afraid to put herself in the wrong with the Red Guards. They all went to the dining...
...destruction by leaving the territories. The two positions are poles of the national debate. Still, Americans might find it difficult to live with 100 million Russians inhabiting Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah. By the year 2010, the Arab population of Israel, plus the territories, will have risen to rough parity with the Jewish population. Herein lies Israel's biggest dilemma. When the virtues of Israel are enumerated, almost the first to be mentioned by Israelis and their supporters is the fact that it is the only democracy in the Middle East. But when it comes to the Palestinians...