Word: stalwarts
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Thoroughly chilled by a strong Communist wind blowing through Europe, the President's Committee on European Reconstruction recently advocated a long-range program of economic aid to stalwart continental democracies. Mr. Averill Harriman, committee chairman, spoke in cold, harsh tones of survival. A ruthless and determined Russian drive for world domination could be stalled only by a speedy resurrection of such democratically minded nations as Germany, Austria, France, and Italy. While a 17 billion dollar loan is well-designed for the task, Mr. Harriman's enthusiasm seems to have overwhelmed his logic, for he also advises an immediate withdrawal...
...half the campers are Quakers, all attend daily meetings for worship, and the entire community is drawn into the Sunday meeting. Like all Quaker meetings-for-worship, the liturgy-less silence may be broken by any worshiper who feels prompted by the "inner light" to. speak. Even the older, stalwart Lutheran Finns attend now; after coming for several weeks, they begin to speak, in their dry, taciturn way. Some of the campers are unhappy about this development; the totally silent meetings seemed the easiest answer to the 17 declensions of the Finnish language...
...scholar of the first rank qualified for the post. Plainly, in turning to General Eisenhower, they elected to subordinate the question of learning, of the skills in education, to the more practical issues of administration. . . . It can be argued that the present era of confusion calls for just [such] stalwart virtues. . . . [But] the regrets will remain...
Married. Sterling Hayden, 31, blond Hollywood stalwart ex-marine captain who ran guns to Tito for the OSS; and Betty de Noon, 25, blonde Pasadena, Calif, socialite; both for the second time (his first: Cinemactress Madeleine Carroll); in Santa Barbara, Calif...
News of the switch never reached eight stalwart firefighters, who showed up at City Hall Saturday morning complete, with uniforms and instruments, and fumed at the crimson-coated replacements. "We'll let them fill our boots at the next Harvard fire, too," flamed a disgruntled chief. "They can take their Sousa and souse...