Word: roughness
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...fifth-place finish, while junior captain skipper Kyle Kovacs skippered B-division to fourth place with the help of Dolbec.“Sunday was different, the conditions were sort of harder to figure out,” Dolbec said. “We had a few rough sets, and a few good ones, too.”The Coast Guard is also the site of the dingy nationals qualifying, scheduled to take place the weekend after next.“Hopefully we made all our mistakes this weekend and we won’t be making any more...
...life last spring. He was dropped into the middle of thick bamboo forest, making him the first giant panda bred in captivity to be released by Chinese scientists into the wild. Although he had received some survival training, Xiang Xiang soon found he had been left in a very rough neighborhood. In late December forest wardens noticed from his radio-collar tracker that he wasn't moving. The bear had been bitten by a wild panda in a fight for territory; Xiang Xiang was eventually found, treated and sent back into the wild...
...Korean student who moved with his struggling parents to the U.S when he was eight years old. Roh reportedly called for the meeting to discuss measures to cope with any possible fallout from the massacre - inadvertently stoking fears that Koreans living and studying abroad could be in for a rough ride. "Koreans still remember the riots in L.A., so we are worried about some revenge against Koreans," says Kim Hye Jin, 29, a web designer in Seoul, referring to Korean-owned businesses that were looted during the 1992 violence. "We are really worried about the image of our country...
...novice eight won the Grand Final of the competition, defeating rival Princeton by almost 12 seconds, coming in with a time of 7.02.7 to the Tigers’ 7.14.4.But somewhere between the first heats of the varsity eights and the novice’s triumph, the team hit a rough patch.Whether it was due to the fatigue, which naturally set in as a result of the first varsity eight racing in both the heavyweight and lightweight divisions, or the constantly changing lineups in the varsity eight, the Black and White could not find ultimate success, as it ended...
...that's a harder attitude for older people - who grew up with more cultural and actual segregation - to accept or to mimic. Part of the problem with Imus' joke was that it was so tone-deaf. "That's some rough girls from Rutgers," he said. "Man, they got tattoos ... That's some nappy-headed hos there." The joke played badly in every community, raising memories of beauty bias (against darker skin and kinkier hair) that dates back to slavery. Tracy Riley, 37, of Des Moines, Iowa, who is of mixed race, said the incident was among her four kids' first...