Word: rough
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...announced) fans at Boston Arena saw a fast-paced, exciting, action-filled, rough-and-tumble and--except for the vocal cadre of 50 Crimson supporters lumped at the Harvard end--enjoyable sport last night. But it wasn't the kind of hockey Harvard can play if it expects to win more than a few, fortunate games this season...
...rough play, in fact, directly accounted for the Crimson victory. With the score tied 1-1, 27 minutes into the first half, offensive catalyst Mauro Keller-Sarmiento broke for the goal, splitting the Yale fullbacks and dribbling directly out in front of the net to about the 15-yard mark...
...traditional constituencies." Weicker had a point: 20 Democrats voted for the rider, 26 opposed it. Weicker gloomily concluded: "If it is so hard to stop this kind of measure in this Congress, it is going to be twice as difficult in the next. This is going to be a rough, rough time for civil rights...
Perhaps, but Reagan's first priority will be to deal with some pressing economic problems. During the campaign, notes Chicago Economist Robert Genetski, "Reagan did not concentrate on the pain ahead. The necessary economic adjustment was underplayed, and 1981 is going to be rough." The new Administration, as Banker Rohatyn notes, will be "starting off with all the momentum going the wrong way." Instead of inheriting an economy that is expanding smartly, as he might have hoped, Reagan is faced with one that could plunge into recession again sometime this winter. At best, economists say, the prospect...
Sadie can be rough on his predecessors at Grove 5: "The articles on Rachmaninoff and Richard Strauss were not worthy of the subjects ... Organist and Composer William Wolstenholme left no impact on the history of music and he shouldn't have been in at all." The new edition is tougher and less sentimental. Sadie's own piece of Mozart, the longest single biography (89 columns) in the dictionary, is a good example. Says Sadie: "Mozart was not just a victim of infirmities and circumstances. He alienated potential patrons and that's partly why he died poor...