Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Newly-elected captain Amory Hubbard scored in every period of a rough contest, and center Walt Greeley, fastest man on the squad, added two more. The College team started slowly, but were down their opponents and had pretty much their own way toward the end of the game...
...Chicago's rough & tumble council-the kind of place where, as Hegel said, ideas take on hands and feet-Douglas the reformer rid himself of a lot of liberal shibboleths and learned to take on the enemy. He had one more lesson to learn. He entered the Democratic primary for U.S. Senator, and tried to buck the Kelly-Nash machine. He did so well downstate that he actually held a slim majority going into Chicago's Cook County. There the machine votes rolled out and crushed...
...also has a new husband, acquired after a whirlwind courtship in California. Alexander Carson is a big, good-natured bear of a man who spends his winters working as a private detective in New York and the football season playing center on Ottawa's professional team, the Rough Riders. The Murderous Ax, as he is known in his sporting circles, cares little about show business. He trails along patiently in his wife's ascending orbit, watching her diet, cooking her meals, patiently picking up her clothes. As for her career, "the kid's gettin' what...
...Pole in 1912, the Strand scored a major international beat when a search party found his dramatic diary: "Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale . . ." On the tale, circulation soared to 300,000 in Britain...