Word: ruggedness
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Tackle Jon Jenkins, a somewhat more rugged individual, is credited with being the strongest man ever to go to the Hanover school, at least in the history of their peculiar military-type strength test. Jenkins, besides piling up the highest score on record, also piles up opposing ballcarriers with amazing...
He had been going to Denver to see his brother. Martin Mitzkus, his boss on the ranch at Forsyth, Mont., had offered to fly him there. They had stopped overnight at Casper, Wyo., had started out again in the morning. Ranch-hand Alvey, a rugged man of 37, remembered how...
West Point is a rugged place to reach by any public transportation. Unless you have your own car or a chartered bus, you have to touch at New York or Albany and change conveyances.
Chester Bowles, onetime OPAdministrator, now Democratic candidate for governor of Connecticut, considered the rigors of practical politics: "This is tough and rugged. I have been called everything from 'millionaire yachtsman tool of Wall Street' to 'Communist.' "
The Notre Dame players had returned to South Bend from their summer vacations looking bronzed and rugged. They had kept in shape as farmhands, icemen, truck drivers and lifeguards. Now they were back on a Leahy diet of football, sleep and twice-a-week steaks. Coming out of each scrimmage...