Word: roughness
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...Crocker, the lead-off swimmer, was under his usual pace because of a bacterial infection; he?s been fighting a sore throat for three days but decided not to take antibiotics. Bob Bowman, Phelps? coach and the assistant coach for the U.S. men, noted that ?It was a rough night, no doubt about it. Morale is not good; we?re going to have to do something different and hope we can pick it up tomorrow.? They should fare better on Monday; Phelps swims against Australia's Ian Thorpe for the first time in a freestyle race, world record holder Peirsol...
...anchors the Hervey Bay off Dalrymple Island, an uninhabited lush coral cay, to set up a checkpoint: 52 Papuans are traveling to Yorke Island for a funeral on Monday. Eight boats are expected to come from Daru Island down the Great North East Channel or, if the weather is rough, the western side of the Warrior Reefs; either way, they'll come past the stakeout position. Overnight, on a high tide, a boat has washed up on Dalrymple. Customs officer Peter Leeman and sailors Joe Homer and Peter Page take a tender to the island to investigate and find...
...Radon and Normile can detect what they have come to know as the singular odor of an FFV; rancid on the nose, with a strong blood and slime character, offering hints of diesel and clove cigarettes. "They're still out here," Radon says to the others, as the tender rough-rides it back to the ACV. The crew express no animosity toward the elusive Indonesians. "They're not wearing gold chains and driving Cadillacs," says Fitzsimmons. "The arse is falling out of their pants and their own fishing grounds are an abyss." Later that evening, courtesy of Trish Wallam, dinner...
...that assembles in Mount Isa for this June-July dig. Volunteers have previously swelled the team to a force of more than 50. This time it's just nine workers - six men, three women (plus some family) - who pile into several sturdy vehicles for the four-hour trip across rough road. Teams used to camp by the banks of the Gregory River, and regulars speak wistfully of those times. Alas, local authorities banned the practice, pushing the scientists a little further north to the more comfortable, if less invigorating, facilities of Adels Grove camping ground...
...rain or worse. In layers of thermals, waterproof trousers and parkas, gloves sodden from slippery branches, Shaw and other members of the local Aboriginal community have scrambled for an hour through steep rainforest to reach this spot in the island's wild southwest. Here at the base of a rough limestone bluff, half-hidden by the immense arching fronds of tree ferns, a dark cave mouth gapes crookedly, big enough to admit a man almost upright. But Shaw, the head of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Land Council, suddenly feels uneasy - not about the bugs or the damp, but about the ancestors...