Word: robustly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...getting breakfast. At 6 a.m., Host Nielsen rang an old railroad bell, summoning the other guests at the ranch-Major General Howard Snyder, the presidential physician, Acting Press Secretary Murray Snyder, and George Allen, jester to Presidents-to Ike's breakfast. As usual, the bill of fare was robust: eggs fried sunny side up, rashers of beef bacon, sausages, and steaming mugs of coffee. At the breakfast table, the President was asked when he intended to drive back to Denver. Right away, said Ike: he was in a hurry, and he would leave his valet, ex-Sergeant John Moaney...
William's descendants were cast from the same stern mold. His great-grandson, Colonel John Goffe, was a noted Indian fighter. The colonel's son John, in turn, was as robust as his forefathers. Accidentally caught in the heavy mill machinery one day, he was "squoaze so bad" that he never fully recovered and died some years later at what-for a Goffe-was the untimely...
...public "puts its fear of the scientist into robust terms-he is going to blow man off the earth, or (in alternate weeks) he is going to overpopulate...
...estate and compensated his wife, to whom some of the land originally belonged, with a bottle of perfume. Straightforward, witty and courteous, Segni is more at home in the classroom or the law court than in the back rooms of Italian politics. He is not a robust man, yet, in the drawn-out bargaining and bickering process that constitutes Cabinetmaking in Italy, he surprised his countrymen by his persistence, toughness and adroitness...
...lure back their audiences, says Kerr, modern playwrights must offer them once again "a robust and companionable outsized experience," full of sound, color, movement, conflict, and the "sort of magical speech" which can best be achieved in verse. ("Every major serious play-and the lion's share of the comedies-that we cling to out of the past are verse plays...