Word: robustly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took the Indians out a few times, but he soon learned that though they enjoyed meeting people, people did not always enjoy meeting them. If the Indians approved of someone they met, they would put an arm around his neck (much in the manner of Manhattan's robust Restaurateur Toots Shor greeting an Old Pal), and then just stand there, keeping the neck firmly clasped, for as long as half an hour. So for most of their stay, the Indians remained in the apartment. "We just looked at them," said Medeiros, "and they just looked...
...religious freedom by the Italian constitution, old Fascist police laws are often invoked locally to prevent them from opening churches. The Italian people, says Mackay, while not hostile to Protestants, are cynical about governmental suppression of them-"As in so many other parts of the world today, the old robust liberalism is dead." _ But Protestantism is not only holding its own in Italy, "its ranks swell with new adherents...
...Church came to Reno to teach Latin and Greek at the University of Nevada. The classics were all right in their way, but the young professor felt the need of something more robust. One winter, on a dare, he set out to climb the 10,800-ft. peak of Mt. Rose, 19 miles southwest of Reno. He returned from the mission safe & sound, but fascinated by the savagery of the storms and by the "complete purity of the world of snow...
Long Henry was a 375-ft.-talI marine crane, the towering pride of Kiel Harbor, when the victorious British appropriated him in 1945. For five years, Long Henry played his robust, uncomplaining part in cleaning up bomb-battered Kiel. This year, the British sold him to the French for 1,500,000 marks...
...have been brought up on free enterprise. We have been taught that it is free enterprise that keeps this country vigorous and robust and brings us all the good things of life at the lowest of all possible costs...