Word: rough
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...some degree, the blacks were voting for a cause and a symbol rather than a candidate. Mugabe has little personal magnetism. He lacks the easy humor and earthiness of Nkomo, and seems temperamentally unsuited to the rough and tumble of African politics. His personal regimen is ascetic: he sleeps only three or four hours a night, does a daily 45-minute workout of yoga and calisthenics, eats monastically light meals, neither smokes nor drinks. Shy and contemplative, he is not a rousing platform speaker, and in fact did less active campaigning than any other major candidate...
...loves physical contact and in the rough international game his play is a real asset to us," Harvey said. Aulet, the back court mate of Konstantynowicz, is an aggressive and basketball-smart athlete who has been a key factor in the success of the squad...
What of the moral considerations? Among other things, says Daniel Callahan, director of the Hastings, N.Y., Institute of Society, Ethics and the Life Sciences, the plan assumes that brighter is better, and that the Nobel Prize is a rough index to social usefulness. Says he: "There's no guarantee that high IQ people produce better people or a better society. It is not the retarded kids of the world who produce the wars and destruction." Graham's project may not even make good sense on its own terms. Nobel sperm may be bright, but the donors are usually...
Harvard found Saturday's loss a particularly bitter pill to swallow because it marked the third time this season Harvard had fallen to its archrivals. The Bulldogs play a characteristically rough breed of hockey, and "they just don't make it really fun," Reed said, adding "Yale is a team we just hate...
Exam question: What does Spain produce? Well, brave bulls, rough red wine, the only true sherry, paellas, painters, poets, playwrights, flamenco dancers, gypsies, guitarists, terrorists, royalists, fascists. That answer rates 9.5 on the bromide scale. The most spectacular product of Spain, in fact, is and always has been the manic-romantic, the legion of brillants who have ranged from the old salt who convinced the Spanish that he had discovered a passage to India to the faded "conquistador" who tilted at windmills. Not quite in their league, but certainly in the milieu, is Luis Cabrillo, a young disenchanted adventurer...