Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...harriers whose top five runners tight pack running formation, and often close, sliding finishes have gained them the nickname "Rough Riders" ran close together, keeping in striking range. Junior Paul McNaulty scored second for Harvard's squad, and Peter Jeilly captured fourth, leaving seniors Eric Schuler and Felix Rippy to gain fifth and sixth places...
Their gazes mix awe and deep familiarity and shyness. They are blue-collar people, or else small farmers who work these hills. Mostly they have rough, country faces and washed, flat, distantly Celtic eyes. People in wheelchairs are pushed up to his wheelchair, and George Wallace reaches out the gentlest communing hands to them, and spends long moments with each, consoling and almost, one thinks, healing. He has the nimbus of saint and martyr-or at any rate, of a celebrity who has passed through the fire and the greater world; he has come back to them from history, come...
...dealing with Congress. When I was first elected, many congressional leaders, especially in the Senate, were convinced they should have been President instead. A substantial number of Democrats had never served with a Democratic President. They looked on the incumbent President as an adversary. I had a rough row to hoe from the beginning. I also did not give the Congress any goodies to take home, nothing popular, where a Congressman could go home and say: "You ought to re-elect me because I voted for the Panama Canal Treaty or because I voted to increase oil prices by deregulation...
...usual complement of comedy, conversation and glitz, along with video-taped glimpses at the family album. If a few things go wrong along the way, so much the better. Carson's comedy thrives on crisis. It is fueled by failure. Carson craves bad jokes. They are the rough sand he turns into pearls...
...venture? Metzger hopes that once people have been lured into his 60% rendition, "a sizable proportion who have never cracked the cover of a Bible will go on to read the whole thing." The Digest contends that the Bible is all too little read, because many sections are rough going for the typical reader. Undoubtedly so, but such people could use one of the readable modern translations of the real thing (such as the Good News Bible or New International Version) and skip the slow parts...