Word: stolid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British Navy is not the U.S. Navy. But many an old salt, now grown stolid in civilian grey flannel, who never did recognize himself in the labored breathing, self-conscious obscenities, and raw emotionalism detailed in most war books, will relish in Voyage's sharp vignettes the recognition of things he saw and never knew he saw, and will think: yes, this...
...following me around." But in the end, Roberts, a careful craftsman himself, loosened up and grew to admire Hillman's persistence. Even when Hillman confessed that he was a loyal Brooklyn rooter whose only son, Lemuel Serrell Hillman III, now nine, has been called "Dodger" since birth, stolid Robin Roberts merely shrugged...
...comic roles and in some of the serious ones, the Russians make humorious Italians. Against Katya Luchko's fine Viola, Anna Larionova is a rather large Olivia. As Duke Orsino and Sir Toby Belch, V. Medvediev and M. Yanshin are, respectively, stolid and solid. In a funny role the latter is very funny. The rest of Sir Toby's circle is just as good. Sir Andrew Aguecheek (G. Vipin), Maria (A. Lisyanskaya), the clown (B. Freindlich), and Fabian (S. Filippov) conspire wonderfully with their hands, grunts, and songs as well as their (Russian) words. Though his role loses depth...
...Anderson, a stolid, philosophical farmer, came out of his troubles by tightening his belt. Last February, when he was due to make a big payment on his $1,200 International Harvester tractor, he sold it and bought a $600 John Deere model, with about the same power but fewer gadgets. ("I do the same work at half the price," he explains.) Last month when a payment came due on his 1952 car, he sold it and bought a 1950 model. With the difference, he had $275 left over to apply on other bills. He wanted a new harrow...
With a winning smile for even the stolid longshoremen, Grace walked up the gangplank, made her way to the sun deck, where another crowd awaited...