Word: stout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Robin D. Stout Gaithersburg...
...water. Then the serious work begins: filling sandbags. By continuously building new bunkers, each requiring hundreds of sandbags, the Marines can spread themselves more thinly, reducing casualties from a direct hit. Trees cut from the banks of a foul-smelling nearby creek provide supporting timbers. Says Staff Sergeant David Stout, 28, of Charlie Company, whose platoon calls itself the Ebony and Ivory Construction Co. for its racial mix: "The order of the day is sandbags and more sandbags and more sandbags, and then you'll sleep tight...
Such an account in other hands might be a pompous progression of rave reviews, gently tinted by hindsight. Not here; Houseman has an adequate ego, but he is caustic and funny, a wry observer of theatrical furies and hysterias, including his own. He admits, stout fellow, to taking on the direction of a hopeless Jane Fonda film (The Cool of the Day) simply because it is to be shot on location in Greece and he wants a vacation...
Many of the microbreweries are outgrowths of home brewing and retain their amateur trappings. Real Ale produces its ale, porter and stout in a used 30-gal. soup kettle on the second floor of a former stove factory. The premises are shared by five workers and a seven-month-old, beer-guzzling Airedale named Porter. Thousand Oaks Brewing (1982 sales: $23,460) operates from the basement of the Berkeley, Calif, home of Charles and Diana Rixford. In Boulder, Colo., David Hummer, a University of Colorado astrogeophysicist, co-founded Boulder Brewing (1982 sales: $96,000) with two partners in what used...
...differences in trade policy and currency rates. But the most important consensus emerging from the ninth annual economic summit in Williamsburg, Va., last week had nothing to do with economics at all. In the hall that once reverberated with Patrick Henry's revolutionary oratory, the U.S., with the stout help of the British, forged an agreement among the allies to support resolutely NATO's plan to deploy nuclear weapons in Western Europe this year if no arms agreement can be reached with the Soviets...