Word: roughness
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Incumbent Alan C. Price was ousted as challengers Marc McGovern and Ben Lummis earned seats on the committee. In addition to Walser, Alfred B. Fantini, Richard Harding, Jr. and Joseph G. Grassi retained their seats on a board just emerging from a rough and tumble school closure fight...
...dirt his men find a long, half-buried wire. It leads in one direction to where the humvees are parked, and in the other, up a rough slope. Sergeant Allen Grenz begins following the wire. As he crests the hill, Grenz spots a rustle in underbrush. Crouched under a pine are three enemy fighters. It clicks in Grenz's brain that the wire, a blast cable, is leading straight up to the enemy. (Later the soldiers find that the wire was set to detonate five antitank mines buried under the humvees.) Grenz quickly absorbs the danger: one of the fighters...
...Then she dares you to stare at something--a little boy with a toy hand grenade, a dominatrix embracing her client--until you admit your own complicity with whatever it is in there that frightens you. At that point, all the picture's traps unfold, and it confers its rough grace. Like...
...rough day for a team whose hopes for an undefeated season ended prematurely...
Though Dartmouth will see a new face behind the helm, the change will be in appearance only, as the Big Green will continue using a rough style of play to beat down opponents...