Word: stouts
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...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...
...offense of a team that’s lost three of its last five.But a change like yanking your quarterback, a guy who led his team to the brink of the Super Bowl last year? It’s not the way to go.Sure, the Broncos have an absolutely stout defense, but that doesn’t mean you should sacrifice one side of the ball because you know you’re going to get consistent progress on the other. Ask Mike Berg and the other guys who manned Division I-AA’s second-stingiest defensive line?...
...Though Quaker quarterback Robert Irvin did throw the ball away often—he completed less than 50 percent of his pass attempts and also threw a pick—the ground game also frustrated the usually stout Crimson defense...
...Alsworthy’s sage advice to Letty for “navigating the shoals of matrimony”—“invest in a subscription to the circulating library and a stout pair of earplugs...