Word: stouts
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...discipline and looting as reward. Conquered peoples were divided among the armies, swelling the ranks of fighters. Similarly, the technology of the conquered cultures was absorbed like more booty and enrolled in an intercultural war of conquest. Thus the elaborate catapults developed in Central Asia were deployed against the stout walls of China. And the explosive bombs and rockets pioneered in China were used in Mesopotamia and Europe...
...grabbed a stout piece of rope from Hamer's, and he set straight to work. Throwing the rope up and over the strong limb, he started trying to recall the right knot--he mustn't fail at this too. But with all his years of studying scripture, he'd lost the knotting skills of his childhood on his father's scratch farm (Judas was the only one of the Twelve from outside the fishing villages of Galilee...
...have a margin smaller than five. Wasting little time, Killar took down his first round and quarterfinals opponents, Ben Brenneman of East Stroudsburg and Greg Francesca of University of Virginia, in just 1:59. He also had two major decision victories, a 13-1 defeat of Lehigh's Warren Stout and a 12-0 win over Penn State's Doc Vecchio, before grappling to a first place finish with an 8-3 bout against Carolina's Jamie Groudle...
Freshman Reggie Lee proved no exception to this display of rookie strength as he came in fourth in the 184-lb weight class. Though unable to overcome Cornell's Chris Gafner, Lee secured himself the fourth place position with his 3-1 defeat of Cornell's Randy Stout in the consolation-semis...
...Allison, a stout redhead from Gibson City, Ill. (pop. 3,600), came to be involved with Frankel is revealing of his bizarre proclivities. She had answered his tele-personal ad and flown from Mission Viejo, Calif., to meet Frankel in Greenwich. What she found when she walked into the $3 million mansion was a halfway house of sorts, a community of women gathered from personal ads and Internet chat rooms, all in the employ of this monied recluse who spent his days hunched over trading terminals in the mansion's digitally locked bedroom-cum-offices...