Word: roughness
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...possession. “ “I hate to say I wasn’t impressed with it,” senior center Brian Cusworth added,” but he is capable of plays like that all the time.” There were some rough moments for Lin in the first half when he committed three turnovers, but he settled down after the break and didn’t give the ball away once despite handling it on many occasions. “I think he was disturbed at halftime that he was hurting our assist-turnover...
...tradition of Batman Begins and the Star Wars pre-trilogy, they went back to square one and created a baby Bond. Casino Royale was Ian Fleming's first 007 novel, and Bond here is an agent on his first big case, a rough diamond who has not yet acquired his savoir faire or taste for the double entendre. The Craig Bond might know no French at all; he's not the suave, Oxbridgian 007 of legend but the strong, silent type, almost a thug for hire, and no smoother with a sardonic quip than John Kerry. Still, he fits...
...most consistent matches to avenge a tough sweep at the hands of the Bears (8-18, 4-10) a month earlier.“We were really just on,” Durwood said. “The first time we played them, we had a really rough match because we had lost Kat. This time Kat was back, we had a really good week in practice, and we were really ready.”Kat Kocurek, a freshman libero, missed seven matches because of an injury sustained against Penn in early October. She returned to the lineup against Cornell...
Like an anthropologist dropped into an exotic village, Rudolph seems fascinated by the Arab inmates. "They're an extremely fatalistic people," he wrote. "This time must be very rough on them for they have little interest in anything other than the Middle East, President Bush and Islam. But at least they have each other and rattle on endlessly in Arabic...
...captivity. He was then taken down two more flights of stairs to a basement holding area that was partitioned with plywood into many small cells--at least 10, possibly more. His home for the next five weeks would be a dirty cell, 5 ft. by 4 ft., with a rough concrete floor. The plywood walls were unpainted and still bore the manufacturer's stamp in a foreign script he speculates was Korean. The walls didn't go all the way up to the ceiling, and that allowed for some air circulation. He was given a large, smelly quilt that...