Word: robust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conferences has landed on front pages by ringing hand bells ("for Britain") and taking dips in the frigid ocean, captured the morning headlines with his announcement. But the photographers were not disappointed. Hailsham-or Quintin McGarel Hogg, M.P., as he would like to be-captured all eyes with a robust twist at a Young Conservative dance; later he captured all lapels when his friend Randolph Churchill started distributing heroic Q (for Quintin) campaign buttons...
Within the lifetime that he nearly did not have, Nagare has become a cult. A robust, prolific artist, he is a perfect idol, with the handsomely chiseled features of a Kabuki actor. He is a loner who despises the city's chatter and works in an isolated village called Aji, 360 miles from Tokyo. But there is not a trace about him of the dainty refinement long associated with Japanese art. "Think of what the ancient Egyptians did or even the Romans," says the maker of monuments, regretting the current shrunken scale of sculpture...
Northeast has never been in robust financial shape, but it was not helped by the CAB's well-intentioned 1956 decision to try to strengthen the line by allowing it to fly the lucrative New York-Miami route in competition with National and Eastern. The strain of financing long-range equipment, plus the difficulty of battling the established carriers, proved too much for Northeast; the line went more than $44 million into the hole during its seven years on the run. For the past 2½ years, it has been kept aloft only by financial transfusions from Industrialist Howard...
Everyone agrees that the ideal of Arab unity, never very robust, has once again been stabbed in the back. What caused the uproar in the Middle East last week was the question of who did the stabbing...
...contrast, the Times Magazine racked up $13 million in advertising last year, despite its costly, strike-born blackout, and accounted for more than 10% of the newspaper's total ad revenues. When the 15-week newspaper strike ended in April, the magazine returned with a robust, 200-page issue, fattest in its history. Department-store buyers, fabric makers and dress manufacturers all over the country read it avidly for the ads that tip them off to what's hot in the fashion capital of the U.S. Largely because of this clientele, the Times's Sunday circulation outside...