Word: rough
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...suggestive, is still a cut above "His Fraudulency" (Rutherford B. Hayes). Mar tin Van Buren was alternately called "Whiskey Van," because he could hold his liquor, and "The American Talleyrand" (though Talleyrand was never known as the French Van Buren). We will not discuss Wobbly Willie McKinley or Old Rough and Ready...
National income, the rough equivalent of gross national product, is expected to drop by 3% in 1980, making Poland the first East bloc country to suffer two consecutive declines. Its hard-currency debt to the West has risen to $23 billion; servicing it requires about 80% of its export revenues. Exports are down, largely because coal production is running more than 5% behind projections. Poor weather and absurdly low government price ceilings-a major disincentive to farmers-have contributed to a 12% decline in agricultural output. "Queues existed before, but now we have no food at all," complained a worker...
...typical Balanchine dancer: lithe, leggy, fair-haired. She moves with the speed and clarity he demands. She seems to know instinctively what many talented dancers need years to learn: how to engage an audience. Even in a difficult role where rough edges show, she takes obvious pleasure in being onstage dancing. Her joy leaps right over the footlights and lets the audience share in her zest...
This is not a coming attraction for a documentary account of a week in a British public school. It is, rather, a rough synopsis of a lively and incautious new play, The Romans in Britain, whose combination of ancient history, contemporary politics and ageless human indulgence has created Britain's biggest theatrical controversy in a decade. Howard Brenton's below-the-belt pageant, written with profane wit and political passion, is presented under the high-flown auspices of the National Theater, which has been threatened in the ensuing dustup with various reprisals, including the withdrawal of government endowment...
Hackett's 9:38.09 for the 1000 is well off his University record 9:00.17. However, at this point in the season, the opportunity to work on a rough spot was more important than devastating the competition...