Word: stolidness
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Sporting Life's major crusade is against tote boards, which are gradually replacing Britain's famed bookies, with their derby hats, their rhyming slang-and their ads in Sporting Life. Writes Clements of the board: "Uninspired, uninspiring. To see the stolid, sad-faced queues lined up to bet on numbers at prison windows, the somber ritual repeated if, perchance, they are concerned with the payout-it is a dreary business...
Harold sleeps in the Common. He awakes each morning to the sun, a stomach growl, and the stolid stone gaze of Lincoln watching Garden Street--at about seven-thirty. He usually steals a newspaper on the way to the Square (Bernard Goldfine fascinates him), and eats breakfast at the Bick...
Next morning Dr. Pasztor again met Agent Teleki on a park bench under the linden trees near Vienna's State Court. Nearby, as Teleki's lookout paced Jozsef Kertesz,. first secretary of the Hungarian legation. On other benches, stolid Viennese burghers dozed in the warm May sun. But when Teleki began talking to his victim, the dozing burghers sprang into action: they were Austrian security police. Teleki was grabbed on his bench; First Secretary Kertesz sprinted for a passing streetcar but was quickly collared and dragged back, weeping...
...Shipbuilders Union. Williams' hopes were dimmed further when New Jersey's un-merged A.F.L. and C.I.O., angry at Meyner for not accepting a labor plan for extending unemployment compensation, gave Grogan an unprecedented primary endorsement. On election night Meyner-Leaguer Williams was practically written off as solid, stolid John Grogan roared out of early-reporting Hudson County with an unexpected 72,000-vote plurality. Then the Meyner magic began to show itself. A swollen Democratic primary turnout (350,000) helped Williams carry 18 of the remaining 20 counties with sizable pluralities. Outside Hudson, labor's endorsement went...
...take aim on a Democratic special: the $1 billion Community Facilities bill designed to pump 3½% loans into worthy town and city public-works projects, which Banking and Currency Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright had reported onto the Senate floor for speedy action. Before the day was done, stolid Bill Knowland's slowdown had rolled into a fast-moving Republican revolt against the well-laid plans of Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson...