Word: stolid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Traffic rolls in constant cacophony through gullylike streets between stolid Victorian houses of commerce. In the great harbor, junks with patched sails pick their way among British and U.S. warships, freighters and tankers of a score or more of flags. From the Peak, the British name for the range of hills on Hong Kong Island, houses of the rich and the merely prosperous give grace to a prospect that leads many a world traveler to argue that Hong Kong surpasses Istanbul, Rio de Janeiro, or San Francisco as the world's most beautiful seaport. Beneath the Peak stand perhaps...
...have given millions ... of workers a sense of security and a sense of human dignity." Nominated by Reuther and elected unanimously as expected, the new coalition's first president, stolid George Meany of the 74-year-old A.F.L., expressed his hope for the future. He told the convention: "We have got to give some sober thought today to ... taking our place in the community life of the nation...
...family mill. He has tied his odd bag of characters together with historical facts, New England folkways and early Americana. John Goffe's Legacy crackles with wit, adds a few asterisks to history, and makes the reader wonder how New England ever acquired a reputation for being stolid and conservative...
...sharp observations of the stupidities of the gentlemen friends and customers make a racy and amusing picture of high and low life in Regency London. As Harriette tells it, she left her father's house at 15 to "place myself under [the] protection" of Lord Craven. The stolid lord proved "a dead bore," talking far into the night about cocoa trees. "I was not depraved enough to determine immediately on a new choice," says Harriette, "and yet I often thought about it. How, indeed, could I do otherwise, when the Honourable Frederick Lamb was my constant visitor, and talked...
...Even in stolid Milwaukee Smokey Alston found himself managing a teamful of unexpected trouble. Jackie Robinson, his uninhibited veteran third baseman who had barely stopped popping off about how seldom he was playing, came forth with a new idea: he thought he ought to sit out a few games. Milwaukee, however, was no place for Robinson to rest. His visit had already been disturbed by a process server. Last season, in a fit of pique, he had slung a bat into the Milwaukee stands. A couple of local customers, who said they had been hit, were suing...