Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turned shepherds, arrived about 500 years later but proved more aggressive and dynamic. Eventually, the Navajo and their herds outnumbered and surrounded the Hopi and their crops. Hopi Chairman Ivan Sidney, 37, portrays his tribe as a peaceful people provoked to vengeance: "It's like growing up in a rough neighborhood. You have to get tough to protect your property rights...
...sift through the dirt and sagebrush for rusted metal and twisted steel. They occasionally dig up the nozzle of a Polaris missile or the casing of a 1,000-lb. bomb. Under the pitiless Nevada sun, each averages 1,000 lbs. of scrap metal a day. "It's rough work," says Billy Marshall of Hawthorne, Nev. "When I started, young guys would spend one day, say it was too rough and leave...
About 400 copies of a rough draft of that letter were sent earlier this week to various university heads, Bok said, adding that he hoped many of these individuals would sign the letter before it is sent to the Senate in mid-July. Bok said he personally paid for the mailing of the letter which were sent Federal Express...
...place where you'll never catch Bok is the Bow and Arrow Pub, (Bow Street next to Baskins Robbins) a rough and tumble bar where you can get drunk on very little money. Watered down beer when bought in bulk is not very expensive. There are a long list of rules outside the door, which you shouldn't break because if you do it is likely a very large man will break your nose...
That is an almighty freedom, absolute. We imitate it as we can, but human freedom is a cruder business. We sometimes manage to make the miraculous happen. But we have to work at it. Earthly freedom, where it exists, is a turbulent medium, full of rough winds and ironies. It is bracing and potentially dangerous. Freedom is a powerful animal that fights the barriers, and sometimes makes people wish for higher fences...