Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HARVARD'S 25th reunion book is usually a handsome hardcover volume, packed with typeset tales of alumni success and glossy then-now pictures. By comparison, Radcliffe produces a typed, xeroxed pamphlet bound in plastic and filled with rough pages, devoid of the crimson and prestige so integral to Harvard's past...
Grapes have been grown in Australia for nearly 200 years. Until the 1950s, most vintners concentrated on either cheap, fortified sherries and ports for export to Britain, or rough-edged red and white table wines, distinctly second in quality to the country's brawny beers. It is no coincidence that the improvement in Australian style and sophistication in the past ten years matches the progress of California wines: many Aussie winemakers have studied their craft at the University of California at Davis, America's ranking school of oenology. In fact Michael Mullins, the chairman of the viticulture department at Davis...
Unhygienic conditions are coupled with a general ignorance about reproduction and its hazards. Sex education is rarely taught in school. Many a young woman panics when she sees her first menstrual blood, having no idea what it signifies. Her options for dealing with menstruation are unpleasant: thick, rough pads or cotton batting. That may soon change, however. Moscow is negotiating with an American firm to set up a joint venture for the production in the Soviet Union of up to 25 million tampons a year...
...streaky golfer named Raymond Floyd, who was in a bit of a slump, predicted that the Scot Sandy Lyle would win. Lyle was hot, and it was Floyd's experience that even the cold shots of a warm player bounce out of the creeks and sit up in the rough. Needing a birdie on the final hole, Lyle drove into a fairway bunker, fell into an ideal lie, struck a perfect shot...
When accused killers claim rough sex as a defense, is rough justice the result? -- A pinch of pot means big trouble for a yacht owner...