Word: roughness
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...empty. Grim and the other U.S. soldiers walked away uncertain about what had happened. It could have been an honest mistake, but the Americans couldn't help wondering whether Hashim was really looking for "terrorists," as he claimed. Maybe he was looking for a Sunni family to rough up, Grim says. Or perhaps the raid was just a diversion to keep U.S. troops busy while crimes were committed elsewhere in the neighborhood...
...would be a great thing because, the way it’s set up now, if you have a string of a few rough games, season’s over,” senior center Brian Cusworth said. “If you get into the bottom of the rankings, you have no chance to get it back. Every other team in the country gets the chance to finally prove themselves at the end of the year. That’s what March Madness is all about...
...Goffredo knows exactly what to do when the shots aren’t falling—keep shooting. Harvard’s captain suffered a rough start to the season, and after a brutal two game stretch in Harvard’s wins over Lehigh and New Hampshire, when he made just 4-of-22 shots, Goffredo’s field-goal percentage stood at a sub-par 34 percent. But the Crimson’s shooting guard has the gunslinger’s mentality you need to overcome poor shooting performances. He entered overtime against New Hampshire having...
...contrast, Albany has had a rough start to the season. Every opposing coach in the America East picked it to repeat as champions in the preseason poll, but it is only...
...fact, Obama advisers have already started to map out the rough outlines of a presidential campaign. It would focus on what the Illinois Senator considers one of his key, if intangible, assets, his emphasis on hope. "I think what's going on is people are very hungry for something new; they are interested in being called to something larger," he told a throng of reporters in New Hampshire larger than those Kerry had well after he had won the nomination in 2004. "To some degree, I think I"m standing in for that desire...