Word: stolid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...teams were losing as much as $100,000 a season; there was no time to waste. To liven the game, Podoloff fostered a new rule requiring a team to shoot 24 seconds after it gets its hands on the ball. He cajoled the N.B.A. teams into abandoning the stolid, slow-moving zone defense, and persuaded TV officials to carry games on the air. The combination of change and promotion caught...
...struggle from the intellectuals, performed their self-appointed tasks with a valor, pride and gallantry that is found only in the revolutionary traditions of the late 18th and 19th centuries. Then, as their strength was exhausted in the battle against modern steel, the fight was taken over by the stolid nerveless men of the factories, inspired by Utopian ideals of a democratic workers' state. The Man of the Year was an amalgam of all these men and of all their qualities...
...life of Bedouin and fellahin. Others hold a mirror to contemporary Israeli life: Yehuda Yaari's pastoral The Shepherd and His Dog reflects the sabra's passionate love of his barren land; Jerusalem-born Yehuda Burla writes wittily of the marriage between a stolid Oriental Jew and his hopelessly romantic Russian Jewish wife-which is also a marriage between two very different civilizations...
...frame-up engineered by disgruntled Czarist émigrés, officials at the Soviet embassy in London came reluctantly to the conclusion that British justice could not be sidetracked. As Olympic Discus Thrower Nina Ponomareva doggedly practiced pushups for six weeks in an embassy bedroom, they maintained with stolid poker faces that in Russia no one is dragged to court until he is proved guilty. In Britain, the Foreign Office explained patiently, things are different: there it is considered the court's function to determine innocence or guilt...
...Earl of Warwick, capturing perfectly that character's businesslike, practical, self-assured--in a word, English--qualities. Michael Wagner as the Dauphin stammered over his "B's" with considerable skill (and historical accuracy) and gave a good impression of weak mindedness. Frederic Tozere contributed a nice stolid manner and sermon-practiced voice as the Archbishop of Rheims. Earle Hyman as the good-natured general Dunois was methodical and colorless at first but picked up personality as he went along; and Ian Keith, Earl Montgomery, and Thayer David portrayed well three different strains of ecclesiastical...