Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...hoisted herself on an open truck while an audience of electrical workers sang "For he's a jolly good fellow" to her husband. On the Attlees drove to Manchester, Liverpool, Bolton, Lancaster and across the Scottish border to Kilmarnock where heavy snow made the going rough...
...rough going for a while. Parker Pen Co. pushed him out of first place, then Eversharp with its ballpoint eclipsed them both. But Sheaffer brought out its own cheap ballpoint ($1.50) and forged again into first place. Craig Sheaffer expects to stay there, confident that his workers will match the higher bonus with lower costs and higher productivity...
...League, Kirkland, behind the sharp-shooting of Joe Walsh, swamped Adams, 39 to 21, in a rough contest, and Dunster edged Leverett, 31 to 28. The second game was close all the way, with the Funsters stalling out a five point lead for the final two minutes...
Last week Judge Roger made an official announcement. "We have dug up 13 bodies ... in 12 of the 13, death was caused by arsenic poisoning. One of these cases is covered by the statute of limitations, so let us call it eleven. Anyway, we have the rough picture...
That pleased the Dutch. Yet the strongest sentimental and political ties could not alter the economic plight of the colony which they got from the British in 1667 in a rough exchange for Manhattan. Its once-rich sugar plantations are nearly ruined; most of its Negroes would rather starve in Paramaribo than work in the fields. Only the rice-raising Javanese and East Indians, imported as indentured labor in the 19th Century, have made a go of it in the coastal swamps; they now number nearly half the colony's 208,000 population...