Word: roughly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1970
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...nearly 200 journalists arrived for the five-day conference. Earnest, grave, mostly business-suited in the now-common European priestly fashion, the theologians gathered in Brussels' vast Palais des Congrès. The conference began peacefully enough. Then, when Schillebeeckx and his Concilium colleagues offered 28 rough-draft resolutions for the congress to consider, the lid came...
...Nixon also requires a measure of popular support, or at least quiescence, if he is continue to govern at home. Therefore it seems very likely that the next few months will see the Administration try to settle in for the long haul in Vietnam by smoothing out the rough edges of the war and trying to make it a little easier for the American public to accept. The draft can be "reformed" to take the pressure off troublesome college students. In time the policy of phased reductions might actually reduce the troop commitment in Vietnam...
...addition, producing and promoting what appeared on the air cost perhaps another $20 million. FCC figures show that political spending for television and radio quadrupled between 1956 and 1968, though the price of air time increased by only 21 times. In this nonpresidential year, the best-informed but rough guess puts total candidate spending at $150 million, with about $63 million going to the electronic media campaign...
...Terp, has been painstakingly assembling pop-top rings into glittering dresses, vests, stoles, belts, miniskirts and maxiskirts-all resembling the mailed armor worn by warriors of the Middle Ages to ward off sword blows. Collecting the rings from rubbish heaps behind San Juan bars, Chavez files down their rough edges' and crochets them together with silver thread. It is a slow process. When he began making the pop-tops last spring, it took Chavez a day to complete a 600-ring vest 20 inches long. Now he can turn out two vests...
...neophyte, that first plunge into the gossip pits of Women's Wear Daily can be like a trip to the Tuaregs-everything seems veiled, pale blue and couched in some mysterious language. What follows is a rough translation of some of the more common nicknames and catch phrases that appear regularly in "Eye," "Eye Too" and other features...