Word: stalwartness
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Cross Section. When he concluded his state paper on U.S. hopes for a prosperous, free world, the President took a chrome steel spade that was inscribed: Here, in the Heart of America, Dwight D. Eisenhower learned the Lessons of Youth which shaped his rise to stalwart leader and fearless fighter for the rights of man in the era of liberty's greatest trial. He drove the spade into the ground and turned over the first pile of Abilene earth on the plot where the $3,000,000 Eisenhower Library will stand (said he, when photographers asked for the inevitable...
...cover, his expression confident that the Olympic crew that he led would go forth, "the bronze-skinned ones, to conquer the oarsmen of the world, as warlike Menelaus led the bronze-greaved Argives against Troy of old." The late Arthur Brisbane, his fancy tickled by the responsibilities of "this stalwart scion of honorable American lines," imagined him stirring his men to victory with "winged words plucked bright and burning" from the Homeric Greek: ri(j>d' OUTCOS ecrTTjre TeflrjTrores ^Ore ve(3pol ("Why stand ye here astounded, like fauns?"). Thus encouraged. Rockefeller's crew swept the Seine...
Self-cast as a latter-day Joan of Arc in the Fronde, a kind of comic-opera civil war of the disgruntled French nobility, Mademoiselle achieved only the boring martyrdom of five years' rural banishment from the Paris she loved. After 4-3 years of stalwart virginity in the most lascivious court in Europe, she fell passionately in love with a toy-soldier-sized captain in the king's guards, one Count de Lauzun, who was half a dozen years and a foot or so her junior. She wooed him ardently. For three happy days, Louis XIV gave...
Bundy was awarded a Doctor of Laws degree and was described as an "eloquent leader in man's search for understanding, stalwart representative of the liberal arts in action...
Kirkland's Al Percy, the man who discovered the closed gate, won the race. Those originally ahead of him did as well as they could; one stalwart reportedly finished fifth, despite his quarter-mile handicap. But Kirkland House won the team competition, with 30 points. Dunster followed with...