Word: robustness
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...House of Commons on the prospect of increased duck production, Sidney Dye, Labor member for Norfolk South-West, last week declared: "Ducks greedily devour wireworms and leather jackets, thus ridding the soil of these pests. It may well be that those who eat the ducks can readily assimilate the robust characteristics of these other creatures. If so, may I commend to His Majesty's Ministers the value of ducks and green peas for a regular place in their diet...
Next day, Winston Churchill tested the "robust characteristics" of the government by insisting that the Laborites promise not to nationalize Britain's iron & steel industry until after another general election has been held. If Churchill's proposal passed, it could topple the shaky Labor government...
...also lame, and long ill with the diabetes which killed him at 52. A bit of a bohemian in his excursions to Greenwich Village and Montparnasse, he never stayed away from Lancaster long. Bachelor Demuth was "sheltered as a child and as a man," wrote Ritchie, "by an extraordinarily robust mother...
...results were sparkling. He had the knack of putting flowers into many-faceted, highly polished pictures without seeming to disarrange their leaves and petals. The driest of artists, he knew how to keep the bloom on a peach or the dew on a blossom. His talent had never been robust; the fact that his best works were evocations of things so elusive and so close to perfection as flowers was a measure of its fineness...
...singer named Fanny Brice and a twinkle-toed dancer named Marilyn Miller had enchanted a million-odd playgoers of the '20s. Last week, the new star that glittered over Broadway was novel enough and brilliant enough to make all of show business seem once again like a glamourous, robust legend...