Word: robustly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...successor, President Ismet Inönü promptly appointed a man whose similar leanings are not taken for granted: robust, greying Foreign Minister Sükrü Saracoglu (rhymes with "marrow jaw glue"), 52, who in his time has held Turkey's portfolios of Finance, Justice, Interior and Education, who has helped President Inönüü plot and steer Turkey's present course. Hearty, bull-voiced Saracoglu sports a Hitler-style mustache and has often been suspected of Axis sympathies...
...Delirium tremens, which afflicts only 4% of all drunkards, develops in "persons of robust health" after ten or 15 years of hard drinking. A severe injury or illness usually starts the disease off. Victims suffer from uncontrollable trembling (often including the tongue) as well as from visions of faces, voices, small, fast-moving animals. (The traditional pink elephant has been seen by only one patient on record...
...optimism (TIME, May 25) had rolled up like a giant wave. The news from Washington, gusty and robust, kicked it higher. The Pacific War Council said that even in the Far East the situation was "not bad." Even conservative Cordell Hull told newsmen that victory looked closer...
Quiet, diffident Harold Smith still likes to work with his hands; he plays handyman around his brick Colonial house in Virginia, turns out smooth walnut furniture on a power lathe in the basement. His tall, robust wife, who shoots near-championship golf, thinks his mathematics is only good in big figures, never permits him to meddle with the household accounts...
FIVE ALARM FUNERAL-Stewart Sterling-Putnam ($2). Criminally induced holocausts in New York City, as well as several murders, a spot of acid hurling and dirty work among the smoke-eaters, are all traced to the proper parties by Chief Fire Marshal Ben Pedley. Refreshing new scene, robust talk, unflagging action, and a completely cockeyed motive-which readers may ignore without spoiling the yarn...