Word: stolid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Evidence was indisputable. The soldiers had been captured in Herr Hogen's farm buildings. Herr Hogen's stolid wife admitted giving them food and clothing. One of the soldiers was Packbier's brother. With a rush of guttural oratory (which had to be laboriously translated), Hogen and Packbier made their clever defense...
...stolid Don Nelson, and bouncy Maury Maverick, chairman of the Smaller War Plants Corp., are in a minority. They argue that idle U.S. machinery and men should be free to use the mountains of surplus aluminum. (Fortnight ago the Aluminum Association stated that curtail ments in aluminum for war materials now exceed the total amount of aluminum used by the country annually before the war.) Last week SWPC estimated that two and a half million tons of steel in odd lots, shapes and sizes could be turned over to small manufacturers who have no war contracts...
...were arriving every day, parading the streets of Helsinki and singing mechanically. The citizens glared. Ribbentrop flew home to tell his master that Finland would tie up some 20 Russian divisions, prevent a Russian breakthrough to Norway and possible juncture with the Western Allies. Down by the harbor a stolid crowd watched flustered Germans dredge for 15 tanks, sent to the bottom the day before when a small and poorly loaded German freighter turned over near the quay...
...stucco-and-stone mansion, built with Quint profits near Callander, he will live with the healthy, chubby, stolid Quints, Mama Elzire, the less famed Dionnes-Ernest (19), Rose (17), Thérèse (15), Daniel (13), Pauline (11), Oliva Jr. (8), Victor...
Across the bleak barrens of prewar eastern Poland armies surged last week, as they have for 1,000 years. The stolid peasants who saw the Red Army drive bewildered Germans back are descendants of patient men who have straightened up to watch fire & sword swoop by for 30 generations...