Word: stolid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President's veto of the tax-cut bill (TIME, June 23), which House Republicans were determined to override. They got a shock. Democratic Leader Sam Rayburn had done a fast job of rounding up diffident Democrats. He had also corralled two rebel Republicans-Wisconsin's stolid ex-Progressive, Merlin Hull, and Minnesota's sharp-faced Carl Anderson. When the vote was counted, and breathlessly recounted, Hull and Anderson represented the margin of Administration victory. If they had stayed with their party, the Republicans would have squeaked through with the two-thirds vote necessary to override...
...Vorkuta Is the Name." Before the Steel Curtain descended, the Baltic people were known to the world as a highly literate, vigorous peasant people, used to fighting for the reluctant fruit of their poor land. They have a stolid dignity, yet are cheerfully devoted to simple, inexpensive pleasures. In the summer they used to go swimming along the endless, pine-studded beaches of the Gulf of Riga, often in the nude (the early part of the morning was reserved for men, the latter part for women, and police saw to it that none of the early bathers overstayed their allotted...
...said a stolid Amsterdam Importer with a grunt of satisfaction, "we can again start working and begin mending broken dishes...
Ashore, the Italians came off less happy; at the Municipal Theater a comedia company flopped in two Pirandello plays. But this week there might be a comeback ; the Italians intended to set up their portable stadium before the massive, stolid Treasury Ministry, parade La Scala stars in La Traviata...
...abortive Russian revolution of 1905, of Norway's breakaway from Sweden, of syndicalism and the brotherhood of all workers. In those days Trygve Lie also acquired a faith: Socialism. But even then, his faith was tempered-as it would be through all his later life-by a cool, stolid pragmatism...