Word: stouts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...attack also missed because it was hard to square with Obama himself. The description "old Chicago pol" conjures a stout machine boss wearing a porkpie hat and chomping on a stogie - not a whip-thin black guy trying to quit smoking. Nor was the Chicago machine an ingredient in Obama's political rise. "He didn't rely on the machine for his success," says David Moberg, who has covered Chicago politics closely as a longtime writer for alternative magazine In These Times. "When he ran for the state senate, Congress and the U.S. Senate, he was opposed by the party...
...Lite, although they might occasionally find such niche-market products as Bud Select or Bud Extra. By contrast, when a Japanese beer drinker goes to buy a can of Asahi at an average convenience store, he has to choose between Super Dry, Premium, Prime Time, Black, Stout, Orion Draft, Northern Style, Clear, Flavorful, Gubi Draft, New Draft 3 and Ginger Draft, among others. And that's just this month's selection. (See pictures of Japanese design's greatest hits...
...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...