Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...During 20 years spent chasing tax dodgers for the Internal Revenue Service, Ben Larosa always enjoyed good health. After he retired in 1965, he shifted to teaching, and the ghetto schools of San Francisco, he found, were just too rough. Larosa's students broke into fistfights almost daily, hurled paper clips, and hit him on the head with chalk and textbooks. Soon he had a bleeding ulcer and, on his doctor's advice, quit teaching. Last month, in a landmark ruling affecting a teacher, a California Workmen's Compensation Appeals Board decided that Larosa had "sustained injury...
...They ran, not knowing what to do with it. "We are going to have to teach a generation of children how to eat again," said a Canadian nurse. In the border town of Ikot Ekpene, the emaciated bodies of a brother and sister lay side by side in a rough cradle. Their eyes had been pecked out by vultures still circling overhead, waiting to attack a line of wasted bodies in a ditch outside of town...
...N.M.A.'s new president, Dr. James M. Whittico Jr., 51, had a head start as the son of a successful physician, is now a general surgeon and fellow of the American College of Surgeons and has staff privileges at nine St. Louis hospitals. But even he had a rough time in the 1950s, when two Negro hospitals were closed down and white hospitals were not accepting Negroes. And today, he notes, fully one-fifth of the other 65 black doctors in St. Louis have no staff posts. Whittico has had ten referrals from white doctors in 17 years. Only...
...best, such predictions are still a rough art. Depending on its size, shape and density, as well as atmospheric conditions, a satellite or other piece of space hardware can plunge down on a steep trajectory, glide relatively slowly through the air, or skip along like a pebble across water. To assure accuracy, Roth gets updated calculations from NORAD two or three hours before an expected re-entry and flashes out a final warning over United's communications setup...
When I think your love is rough...