Word: roughnesses
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Brotemarkle had a rough outing for the Crimson, surrendering seven runs on 11 hits in three innings. Rachel Murray provided the sunshine for Harvard hitting a solo home run in the bottom of the fifth inning to prevent the shutout. Stefanchik supplied the only other Crimson hit, going 1-2 in the process...
...talked to her about it and asked…we just wanted to be sure that she was serious,” Brotemarkle said. “She affirmed that she was and proved herself throughout the fall. Most people understood she had had a rough two years and that she really wanted to be on the team...
...rough and tumble though, voters might forget that these candidates are far more complex than all the media’s talk of vetting and dogging would suggest. Having overhyped the candidates’ bark, it’s time for media to start focusing on the issues, where the candidates can really bite...
...Crimson struggled in unusually rough sailing conditions at the Truxtun Umsted Trophy regatta hosted at the U.S. Naval Academy, finishing 10th in a 20-team regatta. The air was so harsh that the second day of competition was cancelled due to unsafe and harmful winds. It came almost as no surprise, then, that St. Mary’s, which had been practicing for about a month longer than had Harvard’s sailors, took home top honors and continued their early-season surge to No. 2. The squad has lifted its slot on the college rankings from 12th...
...kind of like French painters in the 19th century. Back then you had your ultra-smooth academic perfectionists--your Ingres, your David--on one side, painting pictures so slick, they look as if they have been freshly buffed and polyurethaned. Then along came the Impressionists, with their rough-textured, gnarly, worked-looking canvases. Among contemporary fiction writers we have purveyors of lapidary, polished, M.F.A.-perfect prose--John Updike, Alice Munro--and on the other side, a grab bag of avant-gardists (like David Foster Wallace), witty pyrotechnicians (Jonathan Franzen) and operatic monologists (Toni Morrison) who fling words upon the page...