Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...food!' " The occasion: the diehards of U.S. Senator Harry Byrd's powerful political machine, aware that the state's massive resistance laws had collapsed, and that Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. was making points with a local-option plan, were determined to rough up Almond in a rearguard action...
Half a century ago, rough and ready U.S. journalism boiled with such competition that Bostonians could take their daily pick of twelve daily English-language papers, Chicagoans of ten, New Yorkers of 20. By 1916, the alltime peak year, no less than 2,461 dailies were in business. By last week, when the American Newspaper Publishers Association met for its annual convention in New York, the total number of U.S. dailies had dropped to about 1,750. And in only 76 U.S. communities were there dailies in competition...
Ludwig sets up a rough, breadboard model of the circuitry with real transistors, resistors and other components. When the circuits check out, the components are mounted on plastic disks. A typical package may contain several hundred diodes, transistors and resistors. All open space among the spidery components is usually filled with foamed plastic. Then the whole apparatus is dropped, shaken, bounced, heated and cooled...
...wild blue yonder, he is also readying new gadgets for planes. His newest commercial product: the $1,500 Navcom (combination communications and navigation instrument box), which puts even single-engined or twin-engined executive-type planes on a par with big commercial airliners when flying on instruments through rough weather...
...should be an especially rough afternoon for Goalie Chris Stone. He will have to ward off the plethora of Princeton shots sure to come his way without the assistance of Lenny Keyes, the team's outstanding defense man, who cannot make the trip...