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Word: roughs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even with Molloy, Penn would have had a rough afternoon. No one has come close to the Tigers all year. Their 27-0 win last week over previously unscored-upon Colgate indicated clearly that Princeton is just as good as it was last year...

Author: By R. ANDREW Beyer, | Title: Stadium Will Be Packed for Today's Game | 10/23/1965 | See Source »

...rough effect, the political party must win the approval of a consensus that includes not only the party loyalist but the estimated 40% of the electorate in the political spectrum's middle span, people whose vote, regardless of nominal party affiliation or inclination, is changeable. This consensus shuns rigidly doctrinaire extremes that have brought upon the system its most tragic failures, notably the Civil War. British Political Scientist Denis Brogan points out that "the immediate cause of the greatest breakdown of the American political system was the breakdown of the party system, the failure of the party machinery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: WHATS NEW FOR THE GRAND OLD PARTY | 10/22/1965 | See Source »

...took it to Wham O Manufacturing Co. in San Gabriel, Calif., the company that made juvenile history by producing the Frisbee and the Hula-Hoop. For the next year, Stingley and Wham-O worked to make the ball more durable (it is still apt to chip or shatter on rough surfaces), then dyed it purple for no particular reason, fixed a 98? price tag on it, and threw it out to the public four months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fads: It's a Bird, It's a Plane... | 10/22/1965 | See Source »

...said, however, that Hill provides a significant change for Sean Connery fans everywhere. Rough as a thistle, sporting a mustache, he lends muscular presence to a conventional he-man role, and stirs up a hint or two that what has heretofore been sealed in Bond may be the screen's new Gable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ordeal in the Desert | 10/22/1965 | See Source »

...raining, and Nixon was late, but crowds are willing to bear the delay if a Presidential candidate is coming to town. When he arrived, tired but spitting fire, he spoke of the only thing that could interest Northeastern Pennsylvanians: economic redevelopment of a depressed area. He had a rough time defending President Eisenhower's veto of a bill that would have helped the area. The reaction was polite, but no one liked him very much, least of all the wet band...

Author: By Sanford J. Ungar, | Title: Richard M. Nixon | 10/20/1965 | See Source »

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