Word: hardiest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comparing the average comic strip to Li'l Abner is like comparing an ordinary cocktail to a dipperful of Capp's own Kickapoo Joy Juice, a liquor of such stupefying potency that the hardiest citizens of Dogpatch, after the first burning sip, rise into the air, stiff as frozen codfish. Capp tries to give his readers not only a daily belly laugh, satirical Cappian comment on politics, sex, law enforcement, the housing situation and human rapacity, but surrealistic gobbets of action, mystery, horror and adventure as well...
Died. Representative Schuyler Otis Bland, 77, Virginia's white-haired perennial, one of the hardiest in the House (17 consecutive terms since 1918),*chairman of the House Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries, longtime proponent of shipping subsidies; in Bethesda...
Like its hefty predecessors, jumbo-size New Directions XI is a literary junk shop where table after table full of crusty, dusty, doggedly experimental writing will discourage all but the hardiest. But those who do not mind shopping hard for their literary fare will stumble on a few things worth the eyestrain...