Word: ruggedness
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What really upset the Post's editorialist was an earful from his niece in the Waves: "She hits the deck at 0600, goes aboard the Navy Building at 0800, mounts the ladder to the third deck and reports to the skipper. ... So far as we can make out her...
China's rugged mountains were more than a match for FAU's trucks, and a single trip of 300 miles sometimes took 40 days & nights. Through necessity, members of the Unit became expert mechanics. When gasoline got scarce, they laboriously converted their fleet to charcoal.
Home's Heritage. Young George went to country school, took part in spelling bees and won arithmetic contests, joined a debating society. Debate revolved around topics such as: "Resolved, That man is a free moral agent." One day, in jest, he proposed the topic: "Resolved. There is more pleasure...
Last week one of the top men in the U.S. Roman Catholic hierarchy, Boston's young (49), rugged, liberal Archbishop Richard J. Gushing, spoke stern words to U.S. womankind. Said he:
The youngster grew up in a rugged, outdoor life, its setting the lovely, wooded country of rolling hills known in Kentucky as the "Pennyr'y'l." "I went barefooted," Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. has written, ''hunted, trapped, fished, swam, canoed, raised chickens, fought roosters, rode five...