Word: stoutness
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...began by injecting life into one of its oldest brands. Founded in Singapore in 1931 by German brewers Beck's, the Archipelago Brewery was considered an enemy asset and seized by the British during World War II. In the postwar years, its output shrank to just one product, ABC Stout. Teo's epiphany came about while staring at the word Archipelago on an ABC Stout label during a promotional event. "I thought, what a great name: Archipelago somehow resonated with spices and islands ... What if we make a spiced beer with indigenous local spices?" She further reckoned that Singaporeans-often...
...John Thornton Kirkland, Class of 1789, and Samuel Eliot Morison, Class of 1908, notes of the transition that “Tiberius succeeded Augustus.” Quincy got things done, but he was not loved, and one of the few artifacts of his presidency that remains is his stout walking stick with which he was known to thrash errant undergraduates...
...close died suddenly in June, and his wife's aunt passed away later in the summer. On a less personal level, the expectations of a sun-splashed, championship-starved San Diego-- the Chargers have never won a Super Bowl, the Padres a World Series--fall squarely on Tomlinson's stout shoulders...
...taught by Ford Professor Steven Shapin, also touches on issues of obesity. Shapin said he has included a segment on obesity in the 19th century because of the significant social role it has played. “There is a transition from viewing people that were stout as a good thing to viewing people as corpulent or obese, which is a bad thing,” Shapin said. Fat studies has emerged as a small but growing interdisciplinary field in universities across the country, The New York Times reported last month. University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, professor Margaret Carlisle Duncan...
European leaders expecting a humbled Bush at the NATO summit in Latvia instead got a stout speech in which he rearticulated his foreign policy. "We must advance freedom," he said, "as the great alternative to tyranny and terror." When kids in Indonesia asked his hobby, he replied, "Baseball--sports" and told them to go easy on TV. He got his most enthusiastic reception in Vietnam, as curious onlookers lined the roads and waved at his passing motorcade. There was much the country and the visiting dignitary had in common. Neither has much appetite for looking back at the difficulties...