Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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This country is rough and rocky, with a line of low glacial hills running from the shore of Lake Saimaa to Hamina on the Gulf. Along this line the Finns were expected to make their next stand. The eastern end of the Mannerheim Line would eventually have to be abandoned also, with that part of the Finnish Army probably retreating to join the forces north of Lake Laatokka. Apparently the Finns hoped, by thus splitting their Isthmus army, to harass the Russian rear with guerrilla tactics, keep the Russians too busy to organize a drive on Helsinki before spring...
...huge Japanese lay half asleep on the immaculate mats of his living-room floor. Wall panels had been pulled wide so that he could contemplate his precise garden and bask in the afternoon sunshine. His brown, rough-silk kimono lay open from shoulder to ankle, his undershirt was unbuttoned, he wiggled his toes in white, mitten-like socks. His radio blared a grunt-by-grunt account of the winter sumo wrestling matches...
...game was a clean one, with only one penalty being meted out, but the ice was rough, slowing up both squads. The Hoddermen never became completely disorganized, but poor passing and weak shooting spoiled the few chances they had at the Toronio cage. They were on the short end of a 3 to 1 count at the end of the first period and never threatened seriously thereafter...
...rough-cut, reverent set of lyrics, they skimmed the Lincoln legend from hollow-log cradle to resurrection, not missing the Lincoln-Douglas debate, in which Abe's words "flashed home like singing bullets, Steve's jumped fence like frisky pullets." Liveliest lines: on an apocryphal schoolroom spelling bee in which Abe Lincoln and his sweetheart Ann Rutledge headed opposing teams. The spelldown...
...hearty man, full of rough good humor, Captain Billy was a veteran of two wars, knew a lot of bawdy jokes and enjoyed telling them. To amuse his customers he started writing them down on a mimeographed sheet, named it Captain Billy's Whiz Bang. Salesmen, bellhops, race-track followers, schoolboys began to buy it, a printer agreed to bring it out as a monthly magazine, and Whiz Bang suddenly shot off like the shell it was named...