The game they played was, Mr Felstead recalled, a rough sort of soccer.

ECONOMIST: Bertie Felstead

Some got quite good at it in a rough-hewn sort of way.

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There is a sort of rough path which you can follow, but be prepared to be cut by thorns and stung by nettles in high summer.

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She wrote a book about Thomas Wentworth, a 17th century Englishman who was sent to Ireland to try to sort out its troubles, a rough road many have taken since.

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But if he intends to be a sort of moderator, that will not get him far in the rough-and-tumble world of Minnesota politics.

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