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Word: roughs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although to score some points would be nice, Eliot's Ed Nekritz '87 says his squad is "just going out to have fun--to do some hitting and rough it up on the gridiron...

Author: By Adam J. Epstein, | Title: Where the Minors Are Better Than the Majors | 10/17/1986 | See Source »

Healy, who has worked in the city manager's office since 1974, guided the city through a financially rough period of revenue cuts and recession. He is credited by many city councilors with maintaining the city's budget and improving its financial position...

Author: By Gawain Kripke, | Title: City Council Votes to Increase Salary, Continue Contract for City Manager | 10/14/1986 | See Source »

...buildings are easier to dislike than those of any other important American architect. They are often dissonant and usually constructed of homely materials -- unpainted metal and plywood, asphalt shingles, stucco, rough concrete. They typify no up-and-coming architectural trend. In the postmodernist era, when much fashionable architecture has been charming and playful and not much more, Frank Gehry's difficult, edgy buildings are singular and brave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Building Beauty the Hard Way | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

...Carolina, began to stir interest in May at the American Booksellers Association convention in New Orleans. Introduced by Walter Cronkite, Conroy regaled publishing executives and retailers with funny stories about his career and family. With just the right amount of country-boy shuffle, he told how his father, a rough Marine Corps fighter pilot, and his mother, a genteel Georgia beauty, gave new meaning to the word incompatibility. Conroy reminded everyone that his father was the model for the eruptive hero of his 1976 novel The Great Santini. He then disarmed his listeners by talking frankly about the close relationship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The World According to Wingo the Prince of Tides | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

Todd J. Zwyicki, a staff member of the Daily Dartmouth, the campus newspaper, said that students sensed a change was inevitable in the college's administration. "Most people are pretty happy about it because it's been a rough situation with trouble from the faculty and alumni. He's a good guy, and he did his best for the college, but he had no support...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Resignation of Dartmouth President Long Expected | 10/11/1986 | See Source »

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