Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, French Finance Minister Maurice Petsche was sponsoring the idea of "regional integration." So far, after more than two years of fiddling with the project, the Benelux countries still had no coordinated monetary policy, encountered rough going toward economic union, largely because The Netherlands' economy is geared more closely to Britain's than to those of her continental allies. Now Petsche was plugging a new regional grouping, to be known as Fritalux, i.e., France, Italy and Benelux. Object: monetary union...
Their first ten days of driving took them 1,000 miles across rough roads through the depths of the Turfan Depression, one of the world's lowest spots, and around the vast Takla-Makan desert. The clinical thermometer in Vincoe Paxton's first-aid kit rose to 108°. The brakes on one of the jeeps failed, and its steering gear broke. Then its frame collapsed...
...time in eight years, Fordham set out for West Point. To avoid any misunderstanding, Coach Ed Danowski told his boys, "They're going to hit you harder than you have ever been hit before." The answer voiced by cocky, quick-witted Quarterback Dick Doheny: "We're as rough and tough as they...
...only one thing to do about Leahy's coaching genius and Notre Dame's talent: don't play them. In Seattle, where Leahy & Co. recently beat the University of Washington 27-7 (despite 135 yards of penalties), there were aggrieved cries that Notre Dame played too rough...
Though she is moving into her new job at a time when textilemen are having rough going, she thinks the worst is over as far as Stroock's is concerned. Profits dropped 11% in its last fiscal year, but for this fall sales were 73% above last year - at least partly because of her plugging of Stroock's famed vicuna, kashmir, llama, alpaca and other exotic fabrics. Explains Mrs. Murphy: "We haven't invented any new animals. We've just made the old ones popular by hard work...