Word: roughly
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Died. Bessie Braddock, 71, retired Laborite member of Britain's House of Commons, where she was known as the "heavyweight champion" for her rough tongue and 200-lb. frame; of a heart attack; in Liverpool. Elected from Liverpool in 1945 and ever after until she stepped down last June, Battling Bessie was much maligned for her antics in Parliament (reputedly including dancing a jig in the aisle, snoring during debates), but earned the love and respect of her constituents for her unyielding fight to improve working-class life...
...story; Jelic's rapport with the players explains part of his success. "My approach to coaching is that you can't push a player if he doesn't want to. You can encourage and make suggestions, and you have to have confidence in him especially when the going gets rough. Sure I've chewed guys out in practice, but when the pressure's on, I'm behind them," he explained...
Harvard-Brown games have traditionally been rough, physical contests. Both teams have extremely large fullback lines. But Stevenson felt unnecessary aggression was the fault of the Crimson...
Yovicsin is obviously not too eager to risk losing these starters for the Yale game, especially when Saturday's opponent is a two touchdown underdog. Brown is reputedly a rough team, which is further incentive for Yovicsin to protect his ailing players...
...this guise, Agathon saves the book too. With his rambling wit, his irrelevancies, rages, blunderings, unfairnesses, with his tender-rough efforts to jerk his friend Pecker to wisdom through the muck of the world, he emerges as one of those scapegrace saints who have adorned literature from Socrates to Gulley Jimson. Robert Wernick