Word: roughness
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...hitting the ball a lot better,” Wu said. “The short game is still a little rough and with the long layoffs that’s what can happen...
...MINING The ore, known as kimberlite, is dug or blasted from mines; the deposits are then crushed and boiled in grease and water to separate the diamonds. About 80% of the world's rough stones come from Angola, Australia, Botswana, Namibia, Russia, South Africa and Zaire...
...SORTING The rough diamonds are sorted and valued depending on shape, quality, color and size before being sold to cutting centers, primarily in Antwerp, Bombay, New York and Tel Aviv. The value of diamonds sold to the world's cutting centers each year is nearly $10 billion...
...just couldn’t get in a rhythm,” Morgalis said of his rough start. “I like to get the ball back and just go to the next pitch. It keeps your defense in it, and it kind of keeps the batter guessing...
What carry him through these rough patches are his voice--which has a wry charisma reminiscent of the Violent Femmes' Gordon Gano and Pavement's Stephen Malkmus--and terrific production by Ethan Johns. On My Way is barely electric, but Johns (whose father Glyn was a pioneer in intimate recording techniques and one of the early producers on Let It Be) finds a way to make it rock at every opportunity. For now, Kweller is still just a guy with a guitar. But he's aging quite well. --By Josh Tyrangiel