Word: ruggeder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Triggered by moist tropical air, which the Pacific jet stream freakishly shot in from Hawaii over cool northern Califor nia, a tremendous downpour began at mid-month. The downfall deposited as much as 31.5 inches of rain by Dec. 26, melted Sierra snowpacks like a blowtorch, streamed off steep hillsides...
Can a juvenile delinquent be "cured" simply by hard work and discipline? Many social workers think not. The average delinquent, they argue, needs psychiatric care as well. Recently, Britain's penal authorities have been operating on the opposite theory: at "detention centers" at Kidlington, near Oxford, and Goudhurst in...
HENRY'S WONDERFUL MODEL T, by Floyd Clymer (219 pp.; McGraw-Hill; $5.95), and TIN LIZZIE, by Philip Van Doren Sfern (180 pp.; Simon & Schuster; $3.95), celebrate the rugged lifetime (1908-27) of that noble and uncommon carrier, the Model T Ford. The splendid pictures and authoritative text are...
Boise, Idaho (pop. 50,000), the state capital, is usually thought of as a boisterous, rollicking he-man's town, and home of the rugged Westerner. In the downtown saloons of the city a faint echo of Boise's ripsnorting frontier days can still be heard, but its...
The defense position is more impressive. Under the strategic plan pushed by the British ever since their evacuation of Suez, the main Middle East defense line would be established along the rugged Zagros mountain range which runs from eastern Turkey southeastward along the north shore of the Persian Gulf. This...