Word: robustly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Heavy Harness. A big, robust man, Ismay has the tact and shrewdness needed for NATO's new job. He, himself, in a House of Lords speech last year, was searchingly critical of NATO's unwieldy complexity: "Rather a lot of harness and not much horse," he called it. "I believe there is a hiatus at the summit...
...doctors like to say, a man is as old as his arteries, King George VI was older than his years. Never robust, he spent uncounted hours standing stiffly at public ceremonies or walking before endless review lines. The strain of these activities was bad for a man with circulatory trouble. Because of his medical history, the King's death from a coronary thrombosis (a blood clot blocking the artery on which the heart's muscle depends) was no surprise to medical...
Authors Dee Brown and Martin Schmitt spin plenty of such robust yarns in Trail Driving Days, and for added flavor and authenticity they pack in 229 portraits and illustrations. Some of the stories they tell have been told before, but seldom if ever have so many good ones been strung together, with honest-looking pictures. The result is a book that takes the old West away from the spurious westerns and gives it back to the real cowmen and bad men. Reality, in the cattle-driving days of 1850-1900, was fully as lively as most of the subsequent fiction...
...integration of philosophy and play is attempted by setting up one person as the personification of an Idea. Alex Minotis, playing Domingo Alvero, is a South American dictator who exists on the belief that the robust man, the forceful man, can carry out his idea through totalitarian force. There are two other ideas involved in the play: first, that Alvero's is definitely wrong, that progress should be achieved by another process, and secondly, the present American ideal of democracy...
...from his seat at the piano. Nodding his big head, or gesturing slightly with a momentarily free hand to indicate the tempo, he kept superb command of the ensemble, while producing immaculate music from his own piano. Characteristically, it was Bach of uncommon serenity in the slow passages, of robust vigor in the strong ones. (Fischer on Bach: "Good phrasing, a moderate tempo and a clear head are the three requisites.") At the end of the third concert, the musicians joined in the applause, tapped their bows against their violins and cellos in compliment...