Word: roughness
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When Americans want an iconic image of poverty, joblessness, alcoholism, and despair, they look to trailer parks. The rough French equivalent is the Nord Pas de Calais department, a swath of hardscrabble land that makes up about a third of France's northern border. While the neighboring Belgians remain the favorite butt of French jokes about simpletons, France has traditionally considered its indigenous northerners, known as Ch'ti, too miserable to even joke about. Instead, the Ch'ti were the folks filmmakers habitually went to for dismal, Zola-esque images of France's post-industrial decline and squalor. But that...
...Exaggeration? You can be sure that the Democratic race will be rough from here on out. Clinton's victories in Texas and Ohio - states where her campaign estimates Obama and his allies outspent her by more than 2 to 1 on advertising alone - came only after she ramped up her assault on Obama. Her previous sweetness was getting her nothing but declining poll numbers. Clinton questioned her opponent's honesty after it was reported that an adviser had assured Canadian government officials that Obama didn't really mean his anti-free-trade rhetoric. "The old wink-wink," Clinton said scornfully...
...people counted me out, but I was campaigning in states where many people felt like they had been counted out from time to time and had to keep fighting and coming back. I was endorsed on Saturday in Youngstown - a city that has had a pretty rough ride over the last three or so decades by Kelly "the Ghost" Pavlik, the champion [middleweight boxer], and I think that really symbolized what I was trying to do, which was to tell people I would be a fighter for them, because I know that they deserve to have someone who gets...
...Bush while attending the University of Southern California have seen Indiana’s coach dismissed and Bush in court. Of course, we could not omit mention of a report in Sunday’s New York Times that underscored the dangerous line Harvard must walk upon entering the rough and tumble world of major college sports. According to the Times, the recruiting push orchestrated by Harvard’s new basketball coach Tommy Amaker has raised red flags over the potential bending of recruiting rules and admissions standards. And so, President Faust, in your input toward selecting Orleans?...
...Tallett heads for the box after some rough play in the corner of the Harvard zone, whistled for two minutes for hitting from behind...