Word: stolid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than the brutes, the prigs, the fools and the merely indifferent. The boys are locked in separate cells and come under new influences. Pasquale is tricked into informing; neither boy ever quite understands how they have been betrayed. The seraphically charming Pasquale dwindles into a corrupted, potential criminal. The stolid Giuseppe grows into a grave embodiment of vengeance. Deceit, bewilderment, loss of affection and of faith drive them to the edge of sanity. Finally Pasquale kills his friend. Over the dead body, he first begins to realize what he has done to his friend and to himself-and a little...
Gradually the less stolid of the nuns start coming apart. Sister Philippa plants flowers instead of the vegetables that they need. Sister Superior Clodagh's prayers are interrupted by flashbacks to a love affair. Sister Ruth does not renew her vows (which are renewable annually in this Order); she pours herself into a red dress and makes a maddened dead-set for the Englishman. The pagan atmosphere is too much for the nuns; by the time the rains set in, they forlornly abandon St. Faith's for the convent back in Calcutta...
Gromyko was among the first to leave, walking with his heavy, stiff shoulders carried high, head prodding forward, his face a stolid mask. Soviet car No. 1 drove up. The chauffeur smiled with a flash of stainless steel teeth, and Gromyko disappeared in a faint cloud of gasoline and mystery...
...deal was managed by Hugh R. Sharp Jr., 37, cheerful, stolid son of the late Isabelle du Pont Sharp (sister of Irénée, Lammot and Pierre). Though Sharp, who shares Uncle Pierre's Wilmington office, minimized his family's holdings in Butler Bros, ("a good deal less than 10%"), there was no mistaking who was in the saddle. Sharp, who joined the Butler board early this year, last week persuaded President Thomas B. Freeman, 60, to kick himself upstairs into the board chairmanship. In as president went G. Robert Herberger, a handsome, hustling merchandiser...
...latest romp had given conversation a new spice. For weeks, shopgirls riding the crowded subway of Buenos Aires had aired their views. "I don't care what she was," said one. "I just hope she can do what she promises." Pomaded young executives in the Calle Florida and stolid porteños (citizens of Buenos Aires) sipping tea in the Boston Bar rehashed the question of Eva's position. "I don't mean to be snobbish. I don't mind her humble origin in the least; many of us descended from poor immigrants, but there...