Word: stout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tony Downer '80, HLS, HBS 3:08:03 Bill Kealey '85 3:10:00 Walter Paulsen '83 3:12:55 Dave Weng '84 3:15:35 Mark Poritz '83 3:16:20 Lindy Yeager '84 3:16:50 Jim Keane '84 3:17:00 Steve Stout '84 3:17:00 Tom Meyer '84 3:18:12 Susan Kattlove '85 3:18:18 Mark Goodman '85 3:18:18 Tom McGuire '85 3:19:00 Kathryn Davis '83 3:21:00 Wayne Colin, HSDM 3:22:00 Jeff Calcagno '82 3:23:00 Julie Moore '85 3:23:00 Paul Styrt...
...sign of strain or temper. At 70, an unstooped 6 ft. 2 in., she strides and chops as energetically as the Smith College basketball player she once was-though to stay at 170 Ibs. she is a periodic Scarsdale Dieter. Out to stalk the wild mushroom, equipped with topee, stout stick, a yellow slicker and blue New Balance sneakers, she slogged through viscous mud that bogged down her party's four-wheel-drive Bronco, gathering a basketful of the yellow, peppery, precious ($8 per Ib.) chanterelles (Cantharellus cibarius) that had been prodigally "planted" on the scene that morning...
...Travel light" is not a royal maxim. The logistics of the Queen's retinue rival that of a small army. Her luggage alone is staggering: half a dozen stout leather trunks, hat-and shoeboxes, two queen-size 6-ft. wardrobes for ball gowns. No spifty designer luggage for Her Majesty, but a motley array of well-worn pieces, some of them hand-me-downs like the slender parasol case inherited from her grandmother Queen Mary. An intricate system of labeling and cross-referencing keeps her voluminous wardrobe and matching accessories in order. The system is managed...
Another of Van Dyck's clients, however, the Countess of Sussex, lamented that he had made her look "very ill-favourede," stout in the cheeks, like one of the winds huffing and blowing. "But truely," she conceded, "I thinke it tis lyke the originale." The fact is that flattery is not a word that can quickly be defined, at least in portraiture. How it is used, what it means, depends on how the sitter feels about himself and how posterity will feel about the sitter. Our own bias, in a post-Freudian age, is toward portraits that show...
...keyboard on the ground that such work is demeaning. Two executives in a large firm reportedly refuse to read any computer printout until their secretaries have retyped it into the form of a standard memo. "The biggest problem in introducing computers into an office is management itself," says Ted Stout of National Systems Inc., an office design firm in Atlanta. "They don't understand it, and they are scared to death...