Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...this shocking lack of faith in the almighty dollar, but in the end he proves loyal to his principal and stands up boldly to the villain (Roland Winters). "Accept my generous offer," the hero announces in words that are apparently intended to represent the all-American spirit of rough-and-tumble competition, "or go home and cut your throat." The hero of course makes the merger and gets the girl (Natalie Wood), with whom he lives wealthily ever after...
...years since Marx promised his Communist apocalypse, when a new and superior kind of nonbourgeois man would be born, and 30 years or so since Poet W. B. Yeats warned against a possibly similar event-"the blood-dimmed tide," when a "rough beast, its hour come round at last, / Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born." But things, it seems, are neither so bad, nor so good, nor so interesting. According to the researches of U.S. Economist David Granick, Soviet Russia's new man is a devoutly respectable, ulcer-prone businessman with a close resemblance to George F. Babbitt...
...these terms the new U.S. -Japanese Treaty may well be Kishi's monument, even if in the rough and tumble of Japanese politics it should also become in time his political tombstone. Prime Minister Kishi himself remains serenely optimistic, as befits a man who follows the philosophy of the "blue mountain in the distance." He explains: "The road to the mountain is obscured by many foothills. Some of these must be climbed, some must be gone around, and a good road must be built as the advance proceeds. In some places there will be short cuts, but in general...
...would be woman-handled most of his life. Papa interrupted his son's reading twice, once to take him around the world at the age of seven, and a second time at 16, to deposit him in Australia for a four-year stretch of school-mastering in the rough-and-tumble outback. Havelock roughed it, but he was a dud as a teacher. As he later reported with clinical detachment in his autobiography, he experienced his first diurnal, involuntary orgasm in Australia (while reading the Dames Galantes of Brant...
Five Finger Exercise. British Playwright Peter Shaffer lays out the battle lines of a marital war between a man of rough sensibility (Roland Culver) and his culture-fey wife (Jessica Tandy), with their son and a German tutor caught in no man's land...