Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...area is a shambles. Gas and elec tric pipes litter the landscape. Giant earth movers snarl uphill and down. A tornado knocked the roof off the country-clubhouse even before it was finished, and as for the golf course it is still nothing but rough. Worst of all, the lake bed is dry. Yet customers are descending in droves to buy up lots in a new real estate development called the Lakes of the Four Seasons, a 20-minute drive from Gary, Ind. In less than two months, they have bought 550 of the 2,500 lots. Though prices start...
When times are good, people travel, and the prestige of uniformed people like customs officers is low. This is reflected in the travelers' treatment of us, and in spite of orders, an occasional officer will rough back at it. We are educating our officers -but who is educating the public? Courtesy is a two-way street...
...division commander, Major General William DePuy, held no grudges. "The 1st Division called in the air strikes close because this was close combat," he said. "This is a rough business. When you're only off by 50 meters and the planes are going 150 or 200 miles an hour, these things are going to happen." Added DePuy: "I would ask for the strikes again in the same situation. We would have lost a lot more than we lost to the napalm if we had tried to winkle them out of those bunkers alone...
Scientists had ordered the picture shot to show the earth's terminator line -the boundary between the daylight and nighttime hemispheres-which they had predicted would be fuzzy and indistinct because of the earth's atmosphere. Inspection of the first rough print of Orbiter's picture showed a terminator about as sharp as that on the moon -which has no atmosphere...
Swaying to the drums' rocking beat, a lithe young Negro named Junior Wells closes his eyes and pierces the nightclub's smoke and din with his rough-edged, throbbing baritone...