Word: ruggedness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
It was not exactly a dramatic way for the Radcliffe tennis team to end an undefeated season. There were no final thundering volleys for match point against rugged competition. There was no cheering throng to greet the winners. There was no tension in the air.
The Kurds are a fiercely independent people who inhabit the rugged mountains of northern Iraq as well as parts of Turkey, Syria, the Soviet Union and Iran. Many of them have long yearned to have an independent nation, called Kurdistan, and in 1970, after years of bruising clashes with the...
Clarence Darrow represents some of the best America that we can remember -a rugged liberalism long before it was gilded with chic, the common man invested with intellect. In a nation of somewhat disheveled justice, Darrow did genuinely unpopular things as a lawyer from 1878 to 1938. He saved Leopold...
His grandfather crossed the plains to Montana in a covered wagon, and Chester Robert Huntley's childhood was spent on the raw edge of America's last frontier. The rugged spirit he absorbed from his family and the land prepared him to cultivate the unfilled fields of electronic...
None of these movies approach the tense excellence of what may be the all-time best-of-breed: Director Steven Spielberg's Duel (1971), in which Dennis Weaver plays a peaceable salesman hurrying to a meeting through rugged desert country and incurring the psychopathic rage of a truck driver...