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Word: roughs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...freshman race saw Brown grab the lead immediately, and pull gradually away from the rough-rowing Yardlings the rest of the way. The Bruins finished in 6:05.9 to Harvard...

Author: By Ken Segal, | Title: Harvard Crews Put On Sunny Shows | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

...brushing teeth, but most hotels supply unlimited quantities of boiled water, hot and cold. With food, the best choices are bottled mineral waters and the excellent, clean-tasting Chinese beer, both preferable to the flowery local wines. And jasmine or chrysanthemum teas are more pleasant than the ordinary rough green and black teas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: From Peking To Canton | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

...that week's Sports Illustrated, there was an article on the rough-hitting Calgary Flames and their intimidator, Neil Sheehy. Of course, the magazine was quick to mention that Sheehy--who is called "The Butcher" in Edmonton--happened to graduate from Harvard...

Author: By Joseph Kaufman, | Title: Crimson Hit By Media Blitz | 4/9/1987 | See Source »

...worship services and TV shows, it was almost business as usual last week, even though Dortch turned out to be an awkward, stiff emcee who will have a rough time holding the Bakker audience. In his first outing at the 2,000-member Heritage Village Church after Bakker's departure, Dortch said, "We'll all have to dig a little deeper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Evangelism: TV's Unholy Row | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

...loosest and least conventional, does not seem calculated but rather a natural response to the proper, perhaps even the moral, demands of shifting situations. Looking back on his time with her, a friend from the early days says, "She was innocent." Later, marked by personal tragedy and the rough- and-tumble life she has led in the "territory of exile," she seems oddly innocent still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life in The Territory of Exile A SPORT OF NATURE | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

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