Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...command ship; typhoon seas had delayed it. As soon as it docked we put to sea. Next day MacArthur invited the correspondents to the cabin of the task force commander, Rear Admiral James Doyle. The general seemed somewhat worn by the buffeting the ship was taking from the rough waters. In a low voice he explained the strategy behind the coming operation...
Harry Morgan (John Garfield), a rough & ready veteran of PT boats, scrounges a living for his wife (Phyllis Thaxter) and two daughters by chartering his cruiser for fishing trips. Apart from his boat (which is not paid up) and a talent for spotting marlin half a mile off, he has nothing "to peddle but guts." When a client runs out on his bill, leaving Morgan broke in a Mexican port, he starts peddling guts...
...should have a pretty good soccer season this year, although there are some pretty rough games on the schedule which could give trouble." Soccer coach Bruce Munro hit this optimistic note Wednesday night after watching his 18-men pre-season squad work out twice daily since last Monday...
...should have a pretty good soccer season this year, although there are some pretty rough games on the schedule which could give trouble." Soccer coach Bruce Munro hit this optimistic note Wednesday night after watching his 18-man pre-season squad work out twice daily since last Monday...
...lengths of light emitted by electrically excited hydrogen atoms. The big news was that the bands were not sharp, but smudged. This proved (by the "Doppler effect")*that some of the light was coming from fast-moving objects: i.e., hydrogen particles racing toward the earth from the sun. A rough calculation gave their speed as about 1,800 miles per second -about the right speed for a 15-hour journey from the sun to the earth's upper atmosphere...