Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Contempt & Terror. CISL's leadership has had rough going. When the first Christian Democrat splinter appeared in CGIL, Comrade di Vittorio expelled its leaders with contempt, then applied terror...
...Near Ashtabula, Ohio, eight Youngstown College Phi Gamma pledges were marooned overnight on a breakwater 100 yards out in Lake Erie. Coast Guardsmen rescued them, said that if the lake had gotten rough they might have drowned. College officials suspended eleven members and the fraternity's charter...
...bumpy Texas road one day in 1936, Oklahoma Restaurateur Beverly Osborne and his wife began munching on their home-packed box lunch of fried chicken. When a piece of chicken slipped from her fingers, Mrs. Osborne let out a disgruntled complaint: "This is really eating chicken in the rough." Osborne brushed aside the complaint because he liked the phrase. He thought it was just the proper slogan to persuade Americans to eat fried chicken in public the way they do at home-with their fingers...
...Green team is fast and rough. The Indians weakness comes from the short time in which they have played as a unit. Except for this, they are strong defensively and on the attack...
Jordan said that "if this improvement in fundamentals doesn't help us, we'll have a rough time." He was optimistic, however, about the freshmen who came out for practice, commenting that this group has the potential to be a good football team in its senior year...