Word: stalwartness
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Died. Cayetano Ordonez, 57, one of Spain's outstanding matadors in the 1920s and the inspiration for Ernest Hemingway's stalwart hero, Pedro Romero, in The Sun Also Rises, who sired a family of five bullfighting sons, including Bull Slayer Numero Una Antonio Ordonez, whose suspenseful competition with Luis Miguel Dominguin was chronicled by late Aficionado Hemingway in The Dangerous Summer; of pneumonia; in Madrid...
...soon as the young party stalwart left, the clients gathered round to talk. "This whole thing stinks," said an elderly laborer as he finished his beer and rose to go home. "You are asking too late what I think about things. You should have asked me three weeks ago. Now we can't get out. You Americans had Leipzig once after World War II. Why don't you come back again and take the place...
...relentless, cold-blooded fellow plotters. Walter Ulbricht stood out as the iciest of them all, for he had no trace of sentiment or warmth. He was generally despised even by his colleagues; "Tovarish Woodenhead," they sneered behind his back because of his mimicry of Moscow. The great female stalwart of German Communism, Klara Zetkin, once remarked: "May a benevolent fate prevent this man from ever rising to the top of the Communist Party. I cannot stand him. Look into his eyes and you will see how sly and false...
Thailand, a land of green canals, gilded pagodas and 20-ft.-high poinsettias, is headquarters for SEATO. Although the Thais are gentle people and not famous for stalwart struggle in the face of adversity (they surrendered to the Japanese with embarrassing speed in World War II, soon switched sides and happily declared war on the U.S.), they are bossed by tough Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat, who has built a strong 100,000-man army with the help of $550 million in U.S. aid. A popular dictator, Sarit made his country prosperous, faces no serious domestic discontent, and has kept...
Each toss sent a fruit salad of custom creations arcing past the chandelier in his exclusive salon. A mere 60 women had managed to squeeze into the maelstrom, along with a handful of men. But as hats fell like peonies from heaven, ladies grabbed and shrieked. Five stalwart matrons, operating as "The Syndicate," reached for anything that sailed by, however conservative...