Word: stolid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard's actors are now due for official acceptance, after several years of successful work. The rugged individualists who built up local theatre will soon get together in a solid and stolid building where they can continue that odd mixture of escapism and exhibitionism...
...sized home town of Brocton (possibly located in Pennsylvania), he belongs to a comfortable upper class that has the attitudes if not the acreage of landed gentry. Within a 49-hour period, fissures of revelation about Winner's closest friends-and about himself-rip open this safe and stolid world, and almost swallow...
Nikita Khrushchev had had a stolid and passive reception everywhere in East Germany, and his ire began to come up. After calling Hitler "the hangman of the international workers' movement," Khrushchev addressed himself directly to Konrad Adenauer, as if the West German Chancellor were in his audience. Why, he demanded, should Adenauer's government have now revived, at trade talks in Moscow, the question of repatriating the 60,000 to 90,000 Germans left behind in Russia in World War II? Said Khrushchev: "We have long since come to agreement on repatriation of prisoners of war, and this...
...young Louis, unlike his grandfather, was clumsy, timid and stolid. A slight physical deformity made him incapable of sexual intercourse; his only real vice was gluttony, his favorite daytime amusement mixing plaster with the palace workmen. When his gay, pretty bride stepped from her coach and gave him an airy kiss, the 15-year-old "booby" only shifted gawkily from foot to foot; after the nuptials, two days later, he seemed mainly interested in the huge wedding feast. "Don't overload your stomach tonight," warned the old King. "Why not?" replied the Dauphin. "I always sleep better after...
...were a bit horrified at how the whole thing came off. None of the august personages (except perhaps Truman) seemed very easy about throwing bottles at the President-umpire. Perhaps it was merely that the Democrats had lost their sense of humor since the election. Perhaps Eisenhower's stolid solidity is just not open to attacks of garrulity. But to us the proceedings expressed the utter hopelessness and isolation of the idealistic icing of the Party...