Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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freeboard: the three inches of the shell above the surface of the water. Shells are notoriously easy to swamp with such little protection from rough water or the wakes of passing motorboats...
...Odysseus, who grew up in the country, rough though it may be, of Ithaca, to know every manner of shiftiness and crafty counsels." Book Three, The Iliad...
...kind of danceable music that Reed has been producing more recently. "City Lights," a reggae-funk tune written with Nils Lofgren, is about looking for love ("Don't those city lights bring us together?/Together") instead of hate in the big city. And "Looking for Love," a rough-and-tumble number, touches on the seamier side of that pursuit...
...spikers next game is Tuesday at home against MIT. With a week to practice, Farber hopes to smooth the rough edges and up the confidence level of the players...
...cigarette smoke, with the traditional hillbilly yodel transformed into the gasp of a mature heart breaking. All evidence suggests she earned that voice. In her marriage to Charlie, she shows that she can stand by her man, stand up to him, then throw him out when he gets too rough. Curing the on-the-road blues with a little a cappella harmony on Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms, Patsy finds therapy in music: a way both of transcending her troubles and of registering each semiquaver of pain...