Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...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 Munre hit this optimistic note Wednesday night after watching his 18-man pre-season squad work out twice daily since Monday...
...used by drug addicts to a great extent during the World War II scarcity of narcotics ... [a nemmie] helped them to smooth out the rough edges when the yen (from yen-shee, the scrapings of the inside of an opium pipe) for a "fix" or shot became strong. By "goofing off or going on the nod they entered a state ranging from mild intoxication to complete unconsciousness...
...Tiger's Friend. Just before election day last November, he made public his plans to marry an ex-model, Sloan Simpson. When newspapermen coarsely suggested that his timing might have something to do with getting elected, he gave them all the rough side of his tongue, and, even worse, became a camera dodger...
Although commodity prices had skyrocketed after the outbreak of the war, many of the rises had not yet been reflected in retail prices. Many manufacturers are still using inventories they acquired months ago at lower costs. A rough indication of future rises is shown by the commodity indexes. In two months, futures prices have gone up 11%-and they are still rising...
Beyond Defeat, by Hans Richter. The last, lost stages of World War II as seen by Germans who fought at Cassino. A rough but engrossing novel by a onetime private in Hitler's Wehrmacht (TIME, July...