Word: stolid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While he waited for October and the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether he would have to face death twice, stolid, stuttering Willie Francis gave the world the sum of his experience. It was "plumb mizzuble...
That evening Byrnes entertained at the small, stolid U.S. Embassy. A mere 300 guests crowded in. Molotov and Byrnes went into the garden for a breath of air and a bit of diplomatic shop talk. "The Soviets," said Byrnes with a sweeping gesture, "have a much better building. The British have a better building. [We] have to get along with this." Molotov nodded in sympathy...
...Donald Adams is usually a mild-mannered and stolid citizen. But the more he looked at a paragraph of literary doubletalk in a current poetry magazine, the more it "acted as bellows to my smouldering disgust." He was really burning by the time he got down to writing his Sunday column in the New York Times Book Review. Wrote he: the trouble with poetry today is the way most critics write about it. "They worry at poetry like a terrier with a rat. They are bleeding it to death...
...everywhere. In their period of unilateral rule, the Russians had appointed the Bürgermeisters for all Berlin's boroughs and an Oberbürgermeister. They had opened, under their own rules, a few schools, movies, cafes. Their buxom women troops acted as sentries and traffic police. Their stolid Red Armymen drove confiscated cattle and horses along the Kurfurstendamm...
...Norway's political climate during their absence. But seldom has a returning Government in Exile been so warmly welcomed. Hundreds of fjordside villagers went out in small boats to meet the liner which brought Nygaardsvold home. When the Premier and his Ministers walked down the gangplank, hundreds of stolid Norwegians wept...