Word: stalwarts
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Holland. Underground tribunals sentenced 47 collaborationists to death; by week's end 17 had been executed. Desperate Nazi officials ordered the internment of 450,000 demobilized Dutch soldiers, declared martial law throughout Holland. The Netherlands Government in Exile radioed instructions to stalwart Hollanders to resist the internment order by every possible means, but 18,500 Dutch veterans were soon rounded up and in concentration camps...
Jerry Levy, in the Crimson's lace work and defencemen, Don Page, Ed Davis, and stalwart Gib King were surprised by the lack of service they...
...Republican with the seed of the un born Progressive in me," young Ickes went back to the Record, became a political writer eager to help run the political mobsters out of Chicago. When he met stalwart, aggressive John Maynard Harlan, youthful aspirant for Chicago's mayoralty, Ickes began the first of a series of backbreaking, second-fiddle jobs under men he picked for their honesty and principles. Whether the party was Republican, Progressive or Democratic soon became immaterial ; Ickes went...
...general excitement one stalwart oarsman forget himself and put a large and capable foot through the paper-thin bottom of the shell. Everyone was disturbed, but there were lots of other shells. So they got in another and rowed off. Coming upstream, the little cox didn't see a cake of ice, and suddenly the boat was split from bow to stern, and sank unceremoniously...
...Stalwart, square-headed, sandy-haired Peter Blume was born in Russia in 1906, was brought to the U.S. at the age of five. Artist Blume studied at Manhattan's Art Students League, supported himself by running a subway newsstand, working in a jewelry factory and as a lithographer's apprentice. In 1934 his surrealistic South of Scranton, showing sailors soaring through the air under a conning tower, won first prize at the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh...