Word: roundness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...jail he’d probably be a slut. / This one needs a haircut,” earned him a barrage of disapproving yells. “Can I get a glass of water? I’ve got a hot mouth,” quipped Blackwelder between rounds. But his rhymes weren’t hot enough for the judges. He was bested by Lombardo in the final round. The three rounds of competition were separated by several performances of dance, spoken word, and beatbox. A competitor in last year’s battle, Lev A. Shaket...
...communicating the essence of a person, group, or place in a single brushstroke that’s incisive, sometimes strange, and always evocative. One reads, for instance, of women in a posh St. Petersburg café who “hold their mugs of coffee the wrong way round and never by the handles, the greater to emphasize their empathies.” Docx’s skill for characterization is most clear in his slowly unfolding portrait of the father of the Glover family. The captivating Nicholas Glover is an ever-mounting pile of sometimes contradictory traits that Docx...
...Captain Damon Wright and sophomore Nick Santomauro provide the muscle in the Big Green’s powerful offense, with both checking into the Ancient Eight’s top ten with seven and six round-trippers, respectively...
...Asia has been generally free of controversy. "Norwegians are seen as friendly people," reckons Sigve Brekke, the Norwegian CEO of Telenor's Thai operator DTAC, "from a small country far away, which is not seen as a threat." That perception could ease Telenor's way into a fresh round of expansion in Asia. "We have a lot to offer in markets where Telenor is not present for the time being," says Baksaas, with Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines all on watch. Back at the firm's Oslo headquarters, meeting rooms could get even more eclectic...
According to Seoul analysts, Lee's departure may clear the way for a round of corporate reform within the Samsung conglomerate and possibly throughout corporate South Korea. Without Lee as an overarching force, executives of individual Samsung companies will gain more influence over their own operations. There is a persistent fear among investors that Samsung managers were more loyal to Lee than to shareholders...