Word: ruggeder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Two foreigners, a man and his wife, traveled out of ancient Corinth one day last month along the twisting roads that lead toward the rugged interior of the Peloponnesian peninsula. In a tranquil mountain valley, they came to the village of Kalavryta. When the villagers learned that the visitors were...
Thagaard's opponents do not deny his ability and honesty. Tall, thin, with straggly white hair and a face as rugged as Norway's coastline, he is a dedicated public servant. He spends long working days in a decrepit old rocking chair at a big, flattop desk, carries...
Your May 18 story on the Tongay case vividly illustrates the violent force of one man's ambition. Tongay is no father, but a hardened man, driven by a personal aspiration and downright selfishness, who tried desperately to make precision machines out of his two scrawny but rugged youngsters...
Personality: A rugged (6 ft., 180 Ibs.), fit-looking man with close-cropped, sandy-grey hair and an airman's horizon-seeking eyes, Radford is both a hard, ruthless fighter and a military scholar. He shuns formal society, when possible, prefers a quiet evening at home, reading or tinkering...
insisted on trading with Communist China until a U.S. embargo stopped him. Rugged Individualist Isbrandtsen once remarked: "You are almost a scoundrel to be in business these days." Died. Oren Edgar ("Kickapoo Ed") Summers, 68, oldtime Detroit Tiger pitcher (1908-12), whose 18-inning scoreless game (pitched in 1909, against...