Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rough for Theatre...
...Rough for Theatre...
...visitors had taken a belting, both from the sea and from the home team. A 20- knot wind, known locally as the Fremantle Doctor, frequently frosted the 6- ft. ocean swells with a 3-ft. chop described by one Australian sailor as "dirty and short." In all the rough slogging, the assembled regatta lost four 90-ft. masts, a dozen booms and hundreds of square yards of Kevlar sailcloth. In the turmoil, five crewmen were washed overboard and had to be saved. Gary Jobson, of the Chicago-based Heart of America syndicate, declared the roiled-up waters off Fremantle "unsuitable...
...Frazier reveals the discovery of a number so huge that anyone who sees it written out will instantly die. Similarly, Dating Your Mom may offer more concentrated Frazier than is good for anyone's health. The book should be stored in some inconvenient place and read sparingly, at the rough rate of two stories per year. By 1996 another collection may appear, or given the kind of guy that Ian Frazier seems...
...Rough as last week's revelations were on NASA, tougher times may lie ahead. The Rogers commission has scheduled for this week two days of public hearings at which key officials involved in the launch decision, as well as some of the experts who opposed the go-ahead, are expected to testify. Predicted one source close to the commission: "There will be a hanging." That assessment may be too harsh, but clearly the full story of why Challenger and its crew had been sent on a doomed mission remains to be told...