Word: stolidness
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...stolid, power-punching Liston threw in the proverbial towel before round seven began; Sonny suffered a probable shoulder fracture sometime during those six rounds...
...Young U.S. Living in the times of the French Enlightenment, Houdon became one of the first sculptors to live independent of noble patronage. He did the great intellects: Voltaire, Diderot, Condorcet, D'Alembert, Buffon. Commissions then brought him to the young U.S. to sculpt Washington in his stolid soldierliness, Franklin in his honest wisdom, Jefferson in his aristocratic brilliance...
Toward Compromise. Each minister was mindful of the men whose needs-and whose votes-he had to consider: Europe's stubborn, stolid farmers. Germany's farmers are high-cost operators. They still mostly use horse-drawn power and till tiny, tired plots that have been handed down and subdivided over the generations. Bonn's farm-strong Christian Democratic Party insists on protecting them with some of the world's steepest subsidies and tariffs. France, which has half of the Common Market's arable land and its largest and most efficient farms, wants to eliminate...
...Fester J. Pupous '65 lay down his copy of All For Love and strode out into the Cantabridgian eve. The IAB, stolid and white-pated, squinted at him as he passed...
...tenuous links to the here and now. Her apartment has become an antique shop in which everything is for sale. "Be careful with these dishes-they are sold," she warns her dinner guests. Every evening she compulsively gambles away all she owns at the local casino. She spurns a stolid admirer who is in the demolition business, destroying the old to make way for the new in the "martyred city" of Boulogne. Most troubled of the four is the widow's stepson, who cannot forget (nor can any conscientious Frenchman, Resnais seems to suggest) the part he took...