rough-sawn

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• Terrorism is bad news anywhere, but especially rough on Odessa, where the city motto seems to be “make love, not war.”

• Gurley was gunned down on Nov. 20, when a pair of cops was patrolling the rough housing project.

• Originally conceived by author Clarence E. Mulford in 1904, Hopalong was crude, rough-talking, and dangerous.

• CEO Michael Lynton showed a rough cut of the movie to U.S. officials before moving ahead.

• Hitchcock loved to tell stories, elaborate, complicated rough drafts for movies he would never make.

• The camp grew still, except for the rough and ready cook pottering about the fire, boiling buffalo-meat and mixing biscuit-dough.

• It was only a hut of rough boards, carelessly knocked together for a shepherd's temporary home.

• He reached up for her big, rough straw hat that hung on a peg outside the door, and put it on her head.

• England proclaimed a rough indignation at the demand for Gibraltar, which Austria had made in behalf of Spain.

• The advance had to be carefully made, for the country was rough, wooded, and covered with a dense undergrowth of bushes.