Word: robustness
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...Malcolm Sargent; Columbia). A work which, after Façade, is William Walton's most renowned, makes its tardy LP debut (it was written in 1929). Although its texture is slightly richer than modern tastes approve, this is a strong composition, ranging from pensive to jazzy to robust...
Soviet chess teams have competed in Amsterdam and Argentina, Soviet basketball teams in Egypt and Syria, Soviet crews in The Hague and on the Thames. Soviet trackmen and robust Soviet women athletes performed before packed stands at London's White City Stadium and overwhelmed Britain's best...
...months ago, as a fourth patient of the chief surgeon's returned to robust health, Rudloff was particularly careful to make a note of his home telephone number, in case of unforeseen accident. "That won't be necessary," the patient's wife told the nurse. "My husband will be coming home very soon." But Rudloff was persistent. "One never knows," he said darkly. A day or two later, when the patient suddenly died, his widow demanded an autopsy. A lethal dose of arsenic was discovered in the corpse. Confronted, Nurse Rudloff confessed to killing all four patients...
...Philadelphia, robust Robin Roberts, 27, pitched the feeble Phillies to an nth-inning 5-4 victory over the New York Giants, winning his 20th game of the year, became the first National Leaguer to turn the trick for five consecutive seasons since the Giants' Carl Hubbell, the "Old Meal Ticket...
...varsity stayed in the game, however, scoring again in the fourth on a Yale miscue and a robust single to center by catcher George MacDonald...