Word: ruggedness
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Griscom also blasted hopes that the Owl would find the Cambridge climate a little too rugged in the winter months. "Owls display typical Harvard indifference when it comes to cold weather," Griscom said, "They are very well insulated, and 20 degrees below zero won't drive them away when there...
The people of Cagliari, Sardinia's rugged hillside capital, called it "the trial of God." Father Riccardo Lombardi, who last spring had launched a nationwide "Crusade of Love" (TIME, March 1), had been challenged to debate by Sardinia's No. 1 Communist, Velio Spano. The subject: "For Humanity...
Nobody wrote the "Great War Novel" that everybody has taken for granted ever since V-day. But a few writers did try to record their personal experiences, particularly young (25) Norman Mailer, a Pacific veteran whose The Naked and The Dead, a rugged, stormy first novel, whirled straight to the...
During the Christmas vacation the most rugged men in the outing club are planning an expedition to the White mountains. There they intend to do some mountain climbing in sub-zero weather.
The 73 rugged men of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra had just played seven concerts in eight days, but when Conductor Leonard Bernstein called for volunteers, 35 stepped forward. Crowded into two dusty buses, they crossed the Negeb desert to give the battle-scarred Old Testament town of Beersheba the first...