Word: ruggedness
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When he turned up in Manhattan early last week for the funeral of onetime Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, Tom Dewey had only one brief comment on his campaign. He promised newsmen that when it got under way, it would be "rugged and extensive."
Cloudy Crystal. At 36, Kup is still the stage-struck footballer who loves to meet celebrities. Ruggedly built (6 ft. 1½in., 215 lbs.) for a rugged 16-hour-a-day job, he is hearty and likable, though newsmen wince when he calls them "buddy-boy." (He calls Gable...
On the Pennsylvania Turnpike, motorists can drive 160 miles without shifting gears. From 15 miles east of Pittsburgh to the outskirts of Harrisburg, the four-lane super-highway has no intersections, grade crossings, pedestrians, stoplights, or fixed speed limit (except in its 6.7 miles of tunnels). Going through instead of...
The general enthusiasm was not directed at Gertrude Stein's controversial writing, and probably never will be; it was directed at her lively, rugged personality, and she confided her delight to Kiddy:
The night of June 16 John secreted Bigart in a compartment, marked "reserved for invalids," of a train bound" for Macedonia. Next afternoon, at stocky, he was transferred to a battered UNRRA truck, and hidden under a tarpaulin. For the next eleven days, after dodging Yugoslav border patrols, he traveled...