Word: stolidness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Here was a clear-cut chance to do something -- a chance for a large number of SDS members to become involved in a significant anti-war protest. There was a good deal of personal satisfaction in this prospect for more experienced SDS leaders, who anticipated shattering the stolid indifference of the Harvard campus. The McNamara visit, then, was not to be ignored. It was potentially at least, the stuff of which strong organizations are made...
...conservatives, who in 1964 seized control of the state central committee that Smylie had dominated for ten years, picked State Senator Don W. Samuelson, 53, to oppose Smylie in the primary. Samuelson, a stolid, somewhat inarticulate politician who sells fire-fighting equipment and rock drills, campaigned principally on the notion that "the state government must be operated as a business," and promised to hire "a crew of certified public accountants" to make sure that it would be. It was not much, but, considering Smylie's new liabilities and the fact that he has recently become so preoccupied with national...
...interesting to note that at this juncture the stolid Geistgauge sounded a small ding of pleasure. There was, so as it knew -- and it is all wise--no vairy whatsoever, recorded or otherwise traditional or recent, between Stough and Holworthy. There was, in fact, rivalry between any two Freshman dorms, or any two upperclass House. The Freshman's comment was therefore at the highest pitch of spontaneity...
...unemployment is at a near-record low. The fortunes of the Tory opposition are down, with polls showing Labor moving farther ahead in popularity. What better time to seek a margin in Commons more comfortable than the present three-seat majority? But to all inquirers, the stolid little Yorkshireman had one answer: "I shall make a statement in the right way at the right time, but at the moment I am not in a position to say what the right way is or the right time...
...stoic banking center of Zurich is the only city in stolid Switzerland that can claim to have fostered an art movement. Ironically, it was dadaism, which purported to prize meaninglessness over meaning. The movement was born one day in 1916 in Zurich's Cabaret Voltaire, where a couple of artistic types flipped open a dictionary and chose the first word that struck their...