Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...airmen have long been training Thai pilots, just as U.S. Navy Seabees cutting roads through the wilderness of the northeast are teaching Thai workers to take over construction jobs. The Thais emulate their Seabee trainers not only in their specially designed belts and insignia but in their rough-and-ready work habits. And last week Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister, General Praphas Charussatira, announced the payoff of the air-training program: Thailand is sending transport pilots to South Viet Nam, which sorely needs them, and is also giving military and police training to 1,000 young Laotians annually...
...turned in earnest to his massive Age of Roosevelt. He produced three volumes in four years: The Crisis of the Old Order (1957); The Coming of the New Deal (1958); The Politics of Upheaval (1960). All were favorably reviewed, all were Book-of-the-Month choices-and all were rough sledding. "It's much harder than writing history that's long past," he said. "For Jackson, the source material was limited and all the witnesses were dead. There was no one to pop up and say, 'You were wrong-I was there.'" The Roosevelt books were...
...books have thick paper and plastic covers to withstand rough wear and tropical rains. One shipment of 2,000 books survived two weeks in boxes under nine feet of flood water. They range from simple hygiene texts-Now let's brush our teeth...
...Harvard hockey team will barely have a chance to lick its wounds from Wednesday's rough, overtime loss to Brown before it has to take on one of the best college hockey teams in Canada. The Crimson skaters, now 2-3-1 in inter-collegiate competition, face the University of Toronto in the Boston Garden at 9 p.m. Saturday night...
...will be favorites to make it 43 in a row today. Captain Dinny Adams (number one), Steve Simpson (five), Craig Stapleton (six), and Dave Benjamin (eight) have all been ailing this week. Against a hustling team like Army, the Crimson will have to be ready for a lot of rough, tiring matches...