Word: crude
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...that sort in our lifetime. The suggestion that a white élite school system has kept potential black players off the national team is ludicrous. If you travel to any corner of this magnificent country, you are hard-pressed not to stumble across a bare-bones soccer field with crude poles as goals almost constantly occupied by an exuberant squad of soccer-crazed black youths. Why have the supposedly rugby-suppressed black South Africans not busied themselves with carving out rugby fields? The equipment required is the same, after all. Why are our soccer stadiums crammed to overflowing at every...
...walk and informing them that it was now just a 'fun run.'" Other runners said they were given even less clear-cut directions from festival officials - some runners said the only notice of the race's cancellation they received were handwritten messages they were flashed by spectators and volunteers, crude notes written on the backs of the posters they had brought to encourage friends and relatives...
...mails and phone calls, the empathy and curiosity about how I've been handling the Hindenburgian flameout of my beloved baseball team, the New York Mets. I'm O.K. Really. I've been through worse... even though this was, well, awful beyond imagining. The losses-seven straight to the crude, macho Phillies, then 12 out of 17 down the stretch. The incessant errors. The pitchers throwing cantaloupes to hitters who didn't belong in the majors. The mental errors that weren't scored as errors. The feeling, in the end, that no lead was safe because-no lead was safe...
...Populist" supporters are fighting to gain the upper hand over a rival faction in the Party, the so-called "Elitist" group. Whichever side wins the struggle, it's unlikely to make much difference in the way the security forces treat dissenting voices like Li's. For now, however, the crude brutality of the attack has, if anything, made him more determined to persevere. In reply to a question about whether he would do what the men wanted and leave Beijing, Li's answer was simple: "My office is in Beijing, My home is in Beijing. I'm definitely going...
Unfortunately for the Asian American demographic in the United States, there exist various myths concerning its behavioral and general attitudes towards political involvement. One crude stereotype has its origins in the prevalent East Asian practices of gift-giving and “red-envelope” bribery that accompany any Eastern courtship of political power; Asians, so the image goes, are often self-serving operators less interested in political due process than in buying out vested interests through whatever means possible...