Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lingo and Sheriff Clark. They were willing to let the civil rights marchers cross the bridge to the point on Highway 80 where the Sunday march ended in disaster. Then the troopers would turn King and his followers back-and King would leave peaceably. Lingo even drew a rough map of the route that the marchers would be permitted to take. Collins, in turn, showed the map to King, who reluctantly fell in with the plan...
...into needless digressions. At times the juxtaposition of dialogue, description, and commentary becomes confusing, or worse, simply cute. Occasionally she packs too many images and adjectives into a paragraph. But these are technical criticisms. Here, I feel, is a writer with something legitimate to say and at least a rough knowledge...
...Puritans had a small, but strong team. Led by guards John Hawkins and Howie Burkholder, the coach, and by forward Andy Lewis, they were rough opponents for all the top teams. Their outside shooting was strong but they were sometimes weak on the foul line...
...been deeply buried for so long and subjected to so much heat and pressure that all organic traces they once contained have been turned to shapeless specks of carbon. One notable exception is a hard, black, ancient rock found near Gunflint Lake in western Ontario, which somehow escaped this rough treatment. In the magazine Science, Paleontologist Elso S. Barg-hoorn-of Harvard and the late Geologist Stanley A. Tyler of the University of Wisconsin describe the remains of microscopic organisms that lived in that "Gunflint chert" - an impure silica -about 2 billion years ago, 1,800 million years before...
Kathleen Winsor got $500,000 from Pocket Books for paperback rights to her next book, as yet unpublished. James Michener's next plot exists only in a rough draft, but that did not deter Fawcett from paying upwards of $700,000 in advance for the privilege of reprinting...