Word: roughs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tomb, bordered by boxwood, magnolia and cherry trees, commands a sweeping view of Washington. As before, the eternal flame, set in the center of a round, light brown stone five feet in diameter, can be seen at night from the capital below. Rough-hewn granite stones, originally cut from a quarry near Kennedy's Cape Cod summer home more than 150 years ago and recently collected from farmyard walls and abandoned foundations in that area, pave the site. On a low semicircular wall are inscribed seven quotations, all from the inaugural address. The black marble slab marking the President...
...opposition, demanded total obedience from his officers. His iron-fisted rule led him into questionable associations with gangsters, shady deals with employers and flagrant misuse of union funds. Bobby Kennedy, who as counsel for the Senate rackets committee and later as Attorney General showed that he could be as rough an infighter as Hoffa, called his handling of the union a "conspiracy of evil." So fierce was the enmity between Hoffa and Kennedy that special police guards were assigned to Bobby after Hoffa's imprisonment, as protection against reprisal from Hoffa's partisans...
Preliminary results indicate that 80% of these students will graduate-roughly comparable to the survival rate for the whole college. But Williams has also found that the "late bloomer" is overrated-the boy who did poorly in high school seldom blossoms suddenly forth in college. The specialist also proves disappointing. On the other hand, the campus leader seems to have the ability to get through a rough adjustment period, then does well. The best gamble apparently is the high school "overachiever." Concludes Philip F. Smith, coordinator of the Williams plan: "College board scores are much less important than high school...
Monro thinks not infrequently like a politician. He defines his own role on a day to day basis, and performs a rough calculus of what he can and cannot do in a particular situation...
...bounds. He offers his opinions, but can be counted upon to carry out a decision in which he had little part. Had he attempted to compete with other Faculty or Administration members for a more dominant role, he might have been less effective. What could have been a rough relationship with the Dean of the Faculty, for example, has turned out to be an easy collaboration...