Word: stoutly
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...films like “A Beautiful Mind,” “Gladiator,” “The Transformers,” “Dreamgirls,” and “Sweeney Todd”—you probably picture a stout, frowning guy, puffing on a cigar, sitting in an overstuffed office chair while overlooking the hills of Hollywood. However, the time has come for us all to do some re-imagining. Replace the fat guy with a trim, L.A.-chic woman named Stacey Snider. Snider, the highly fashionable Co-Chairman...
...interest in doing so. The Times of London asked readers to vote for the word they most felt should be spared from oblivion and attracted more than 11,000 votes in a week. The word embrangle (to confuse or entangle) won with 1,434 votes, while fubsy (short and stout) came in a distant second. Roborant (tending to fortify) and nitid (bright, glistening) failed to shine; they finished last, drawing roughly 550 votes between them...
...Crimson must also establish a credible running game against a stout Leopard defense in order to free up the pass. So far this season, running backs sophomore Gino Gordon, and juniors Ben Jenkins and Cheng Ho have accumulated an average of only 106 total rushing yards per game. Expect more from Ho this weekend, who has played well in practice all week...
...anthrax letters were sent. In December 2001, he wrote the most disturbing e-mail of all the messages released by the Justice Department: "I made up some poems about having two people in one (me the person in my dreams): ... I'm a little dream-self, short and stout./ I'm the other half of Bruce - when he lets me out./ When I get all steamed up, I don't pout./ I push Bruce aside, them [sic] I'm Free to run about...
...last July, there were 40 policemen, and no women, on duty at the checkpoint. At 9:30 in the morning, a light-colored Opel Saloon drove to within 100 yards of the checkpoint, dropped off a female passenger and turned back toward Ramadi. The woman was short and stout, wore a billowing black gown known as an abaya, and her face was veiled...