Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first awareness of the presence of sharks alarms him hardly at all: "Nothing appears more innocuous than a shark fin. It doesn't look like part of an animal, even less part of a savage beast. It's green and rough, like the bark of a tree." Starving, Velasco manages to capture a small gull: "It's easy to say that after five days of hunger you can eat anything." He cannot stomach the sight of the dead, bleeding bird, torn apart by his own hands. He experiences alternating highs and lows, sometimes throbbing with the will to survive, then...
...rough day for Palandjian. He and Darryl Laddin also suffered a close loss at second doubles, falling 6-3, 5-7, 6-3 to Glenn Ciotti and Mitch Spiegel...
...important hair's breadth away from merely detestable because he retains a sense of brotherly loyalty and an affectionate nature--although he does deal in very detestable and profitable muck. The real villain is Nasser's right-hand man, the fully macho Salim, who smuggles drugs and handles the rough stuff of the business...
...believe that the adoption of the three-point field goal will do much to open up the rough inside play in our game," Steitz said. "Teams will have to play more away from the basket...
JUDGING BY THE Reagan Administration's lobbying effort, the President's $100 million aid package for the Contras is the most important program for hemispheric defense since Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders kicked the Spanish out of Cuba...