Word: ruggedness
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Haugland turned up at a remote mission station on the southeast coast. Emaciated, exhausted, delirious and sick with malaria, he was flown to a Port Moresby hospital, where physicians predicted his recovery. How he had got through one of the earth's most rugged regions without benefit of maps...
Len Cummings '44, left end is a newcomer to Varsity football, but Forte's injury gave him a starting berth. A rugged player, he showed up well in spring practice.
The Republican nomination for Lieutenant Governor went to rugged, hardworking Ed Thye, Northfield farmer whom Stassen made deputy State Agriculture Commissioner. Thus Stassen, who plans to give up office in April for active duty in the Navy, named his own successor.
Even his personal impressions of Joseph Stalin were made up of clichés, though he apparently was trying his old technique of extravagantly praising his international friends: "It is very fortunate for Russia to have this great, rugged war chief . . . massive and strong personality . . . inexhaustible courage . . , direct and even...
Rugged, ambitious Earl Warren made his reputation as the crusading district attorney of Alameda County (Oakland, Berkeley and the East Bay waterfront). There, in 13 years, he waged campaigns against bail-bond brokers, liquor-law violators, cleaning & dyeing racketeers, grafting politicians and labor "goon squads."