Word: stolid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When stolid Bob Taft, armored with the breastplate of facts and the lance of logic, sallied forth after the G.O.P. presidential nomination last summer, he had cast hardly a backward glance at Ohio. He was certain that his home state was a strong keep which could not be breached, that its 53 convention delegates were loyal to their liege lord. But last week Bob Taft found himself with his back to his own portcullis, fighting for his political life. Minnesota's Harold Stassen had somehow managed to get across the moat and was threatening to kidnap the faithful henchmen...
...licensed Telegraf 600,000), but it is the best-balanced. It is not pre-censored, follows no party line. Thus, it has readers in all zones. Written in prosy, pedantic German, it runs unemotional editorials that occasionally criticize vacillating U.S. policy. Reger's own articles, like himself, are stolid, learned and long-winded. His chief troubles are those of all the German press: newsprint shortage (most of it comes from the Russian zone), and newsmen who are untainted but untrained...
...Beauty. Occasionally Professor Morison interrupts his hurried pitching of facts to write lovingly of his subject: "A convoy is a beautiful thing. . . . The inner core of stolid merchantmen in column is never equally spaced, for each ship has individuality. . . . Around the column is thrown the screen like a loose-jointed necklace, the beads lunging to port or starboard and then snapping back . . . each destroyer nervous and questing, all eyes topside looking, ears below waterline listening, and radar antennae like cats' whiskers feeling for the enemy...
Life With Father. A stolid but efficient Technicolor version of the stage hit, with William Powell and Irene Dunne (TIME...
Calm in Washington. This desperate Chinese reaction could scarcely be blamed, nor could it be discounted merely as a maneuver to frighten the U.S. into giving China more aid. But official Washington preserved a stolid calm. One key official at the State Department dismissed the news as unimportant, conceding only that it had raised a few hackles here & there. Said he in a tone that would scarcely have been used by Britons at their hoitiest and toitiest in dealing with "natives": "Perhaps the Chinese have been a shade more independent recently, as if they wanted to show that China...