Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Located in Brookline, TCC is the closest Boston comes to the British style of golf--tight fairways, long rough, and small greens. The only problem is that play is strictly limited to members and their guests, so know somebody before you head out there...
...finding out was which words one couldn't do without, and he worked away on which words one can do without. If you can substitute a phrase of ten words for a given word, however technical and abstruse, then you can do without it. That was one of his rough working rules...
...that obscene words are not to be used for what Editorial Director A. C. Spectorsky calls "shock value or the nervous laughter they might produce, but if the editorial context calls for them, we use them." Atlantic and Harper's both feel that their audience is ready for rough language. "With our literary and sociological claims," says Atlantic Editor Robert Manning, "I see no reason why we should not make judicious use of those words if they make the difference in portraying an extreme feeling." Harper's Editor Willie Morris feels even more strongly...
...they are not always effective; they can stumble as easily as they succeed. Harry Figge's "Automatic" Sprinkler Corp. went into a nosedive last year when strikes and production snags crippled two divisions, while a third ran into cost-control woes. Ogden Corp. suffered after its shipbuilding subsidiary hit rough weather. Tex Thornton's Litton ran into multiple trouble: losses in shipbuilding, engineering snags on a new typewriter, slumping sales of office furniture. Much to the dismay of investors, the company blamed its plight on management deficiencies...
over fairly smooth ground. Through rough spots it is slower, but neither mud, sand nor grades as steep as 75% will stop it. In water, it cruises at 1½ m.p.h., propelled by its rotating wheels, or 5 m.p.h. with an optional prop. The open tubs, which form...