Word: rough
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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That independence had gotten him many a black eye and bloody nose in the days when he was one of the four rough Willkie boys at Elwood, Ind., a talent for trouble that rose from pushing over Elwood outhouses (sometimes with outraged citizens in them), on through college, when he was so pugnaciously nonconformist as to organize the "barbs" against the fraternity men. He had always eventually conformed, but always on his own terms. In his last year as a turtleneck-sweatered roughneck at Indiana University he did join a fraternity, Beta Theta Pi, best on the campus, whose requirements...
With all its faults, the bill gave businessmen a rough idea of just how big (by & large not very) their next year's taxes may be. But many businessmen read it just for the exercise. They sensed that no taxes might be paid under its present provisions at all. Reason: Congress has already marked its handiwork "temporary," is reconciled to the necessity of doing the whole job over again next session...
...Chips, Our Town) turns tail on his recent fragile work to make of Rangers of Fortune the most thrilling and funny movie brawl of the current Western craze. Without losing a gasp of suspense, he has fashioned his free-lance rangers into characters of such ludicrous gallantry, bravado and rough-&-tumble efficiency as to make his tale a classic parody on every horse opera ever produced. But with the technique of a master storyteller he inserts enough sex, sentiment and sock to keep his yarn well outside the bounds of buffoonery...
...understatement. The R. A. F. had previously boasted that the Ruhr industrial district was pulverized-except for a few blast furnaces which were left as beacons on the highroad to Berlin. But, by comparison with German attacks on Britain, the R. A. F. effort looked pale. One rough day last week the R. A. F. did not go out over Germany at all, yet the Luftwaffe was still in evidence over London. R. A. F. might be more scrupulous, but on the average it could scarcely be more successful than Luftwaffe in going after military targets, about which neither side...
...light of possible alternatives and concrete, practical effect. Waldo Frank is a writer who agrees completely with Adler and Cram about the destruction wrought by the prevalence of empirical nationalism in intellectual circles and its penetration down through the educational system. Yet, in his latest book, "Chart for Rough Water", he takes the stand for which undergraduates are accused of being faithless and skeptical, and says, "We must try, it seems to me plain, by every intelligent means to avoid physical involvement...