Word: robustly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dallas, a robust lady strode up to a man with a package of meat under his arm, demanded: "Don't you know that no decent-minded citizen should buy meat?" In Utica, N.Y., a "Budget Brigade" of 3,000 women phoned other women, asked them to stop buying meat. In Detroit, housewives set up stands outside the markets and exhorted customers not to enter. A man on stilts teetered through the streets of Boston bearing the legend: "Don't buy any meat for two weeks. You'll live...
...United Presbyterian Church, a doer and dreamer, a smoker of Pittsburgh stogies, a man of vast physical bulk, who quit the regular ministry to homestead, later to edit and write for the family's Wallaces' Farmer. He wrote a three-volume story of his life and a robust column, "Uncle Henry's Sabbath School Lesson," which was one of the biggest circulation builders in Midwest journalism. To grandfather Henry, who looked like an Old Testament prophet, the Old Testament stories were as fresh as the morning milk...
...National Education Association convention in Cleveland. Corma Mowrey scrimped and budgeted all year to save the money. Like the 3,500 other teachers (three quarters of them women) at the convention last week, she considered it "the high point of my year." Miss Mowrey, tall, robust and 40, teaches English and practical arithmetic in a Clarksburg, W.Va. high school...
...caught on yet. He hit in 23 consecutive games (the season's longest batting streak). He boasts a fat average of .379 (third highest in the league). In center field, he obviously needs polish, but he covers ground like a wing-footed dervish. His weakness: a none-too-robust throwing arm. Skeptics like to point out that many a brilliant spring rookie has faded before September. But Richie is already being referred to as "Rookie of the Year...
...Toronto Maple Leafs blew down the supposedly robust Detroit Red Wings in four straight games, to win the Stanley Cup, hockey's richest honor...