Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Springfield encounter was a rough and tumble battle that wasn't decided until and overtime period had been called. One goal behind, the Carrmen staged a last period rally resulting in the tying score from the toe of Jack Sawhill. Then in the overtime canto the enemy swept down the field and Schmid clinched the game for gymnasts. Both Prenny Willetts and Bill Edger were injured in the afternoon's skirmish...
...build and Minnie Mouse's laryux, is anointed Bulgarian Golden Gloves Champ after a tooth and claw battle with Curley, the tapirnosed bald head. And all this goes on amidst rhumbas and tangoes by a red-hot Pan-American band! The more cultured group will be nauseated by rough and ready buffoonery which makes the Marx Brothers seem subtle by comparison. But if you like your humor simple and sincere, the Keithe Boston's dizzy program offers a bellyful of laughs...
...Corps, sat at his desk. Above the high scarlet collar surmounting golden epaulets, the Commandant's face was stern. Through the open window came the shouts and murmurs of the camp-the Marines' first headquarters camp in Washington. He set down the date-"Sept. 22, 1800." Over rough paper the quill began to scratch: "Lt. Henry Caldwell "Sir: Yesterday the Secretary told me that he understood one of the Lieutenants of the Navy had struck you. ... I can only say that a blow ought never to be forgiven and without you wipe away this Insult offered...
Even on the second day, war was almost fun. It was thrilling to see every taxi, truck, cart, bus and private auto in the town bumping off over the rough road that leads to Thebes and the fighting fronts north and west-vehicles carrying all able-bodied men from 20 to 43 years old. It was a lark to hear that 20 British aviators who had been interned when their planes landed in Greece were now released; and to carry them through the streets like heroes. It was stirring to crowd into Constitution Square before...
...getaway. In the escape of other writers the Exiled Writers Committee was only too ready to claim a share. Such were grave Heinrich Mann (Thomas' brother and author of more than a dozen novels) and Franz Werfel (The Forty Days of Musa Dagh). As they bumped over the rough autumn waves from Lisbon a few weeks ago, the two novelists hugged themselves over their narrow escape from the Nazis. One day out from...