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This deportation scheme, which ran from about 1920 to 1967, was designed to give British children from underprivileged backgrounds a new life in the former colony, which considered itself to be short of white folks, any white folks; too often, though, the children were torn from the comfort and familiarity of their neighbourhoods and, once abroad, exploited for their puny labour, and treated with what can only be described as the roughest of love.

Say you’re sorry — but never apologise for anything you’ve actually done 2009

Have you ever seen the work done in the early stages of settlement on Thor, when they were fighting nature and each other all the time and known as the roughest two-fisted tribe in the universe?

The Long Way Home Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1955

The blubber was afterwards boiled in a cauldron over a fire kindled at some distance from our abode, and by skimming and straining through a coarse cloth, we succeeded in obtaining a large supply of excellent train oil, which, in casks and bags made of the intestines, was safely stowed away in the ‘cellar’, as the children called our roughest store-room.

Swiss Family Robinson 1882

HARDING: The -- I was with my producer, Adam, and we both had done some traveling and as we were coming in to land, it was the weirdest kind of roughest approach and landing that either of us had experienced.

CNN Transcript Sep 16, 2007 2007

I think he must have one of the roughest tasks of any world leader.

Khaled Hosseini - An interview with author 2010

Netflix is trying to recover from the roughest patch in its history after alienating U.S. customers with a 60 percent price rise in the third quarter in an attempt to cover the increasing costs of buying TV and film content.

Netflix UK Launch: U.S. Giant Takes A Gamble As Fierce Web-TV Battle Shapes Up With Amazon 2012

For all the world it was like the roughest tearing across of sheets that were thick as blankets, that were broad as the earth and wide as the sky.

CHAPTER XIX 2010

"Everyone is here from every slice of her life — her family, her school friends, her church friends," says stepdad Dennison, whom Ashley refers to as "my rock" and says has carried her through some of her roughest days with his humor.

For one cancer patient, it was a prom night to remember 2010

It runs right across country over the roughest parts.

Chapter XXIV 2010

They learned all the trails and cow-paths; but nothing delighted them more than to essay the roughest and most impossible rides, where they were glad to crouch and crawl along the narrowest deer-runs, Bob and Mab struggling and forcing their way along behind.

Chapter XXV 2010