Word: stolid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Broad-shouldered, stolid General Enrique Peñaranda del Castillo, President of Bolivia, last week led off a parade of foreign chiefs of state on the Roosevelt guest list.* He met his host on the south lawn of the White House, that evening was guest of honor at a state dinner...
...over 200 years, beginning in 1374, a dancing mania surged through Europe. Stolid artisans and clerks as well as young people often danced until they dropped from exhaustion. Some became so ecstatic that they killed themselves by banging their heads against walls. The music was usually played on bagpipes...
...Stolid, stocky Chang Chun, 55, "the Gissimo's one-man brain trust," is Governor of Szechwan and leader of the top-notch circle of industrial planners known as the Political Science Group. An able administrator, he has done an admirable job since 1940 of breaking Chungking's province to the Government yoke. He should not be confused with Chen Cheng, 43, able young general commanding the central front and representative of the most influential field officers...
...Stolid Premier Per Albin Hansson looked anxiously over clean, quiet Stockholm, at Sweden's six-thousand-mile-long frontier, and beyond. Across the war-torn Baltic, Red Armies had lifted the siege of Leningrad (see p. 33) and threatened to push on into starving, freezing Finland. To the south, British and U.S. bombs fell regularly on German cities. Westward, across the Skagerrak, German sappers and soldiers from Trondheim to Narvik threw up fortifications against the Allied attack they feared...
...Blue's unexpected aggressiveness raised many an eyebrow at stolid NBC, parental RCA. It gave advertisers special discounts, charmed them by other commercial wrinkles. It gleefully violated NBC's and CBS's ban on transcribed programs. This move was regarded as almost treasonable because the two big chains figure that live shows are their stock in trade. Big, live shows are expensive, but distinctive...