Word: stout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drink, though, has not yet caught on strongly at home. Many hard-drinking Irishmen prefer to stick with their traditional whiskies and foaming pints of Guinness Stout. In some pubs the cream liqueurs are called liquid glue. With sales abroad so strong, Gilbeys has scarcely missed the local business...
WALLY IS UNQUESTIONABLY the inferior of the pair when it comes to appearances. Short and stout, with balding, frizzy hair that reveals a large melon of a forehead, he sits in marked contrast to Andre--tall, angular, and handsome. Like a baby squeezing a bathtub toy, Andre can play on Wally, eliciting a sputtering high-pitched squeal...
...rehabilitate Hoover, appointing him chairman of a well-publicized commission on Government reorganization. Historians would never come to credit Hoover with effective measures against the Depression, but people had long since stopped thinking he had caused it. On into his 80s, pink-cheeked and bright-eyed, he gave stout Republican speeches at Republican conventions, puffed on his pipe and wrote some rather mellow reminiscences, including a volume on trout fishing...
...stout heart and true...
...Ronald Reagan's vision of a regenerated America could be painted, there is no question about which artist would best execute the commission: the late Norman Rockwell. The President's dreams for the future seem almost wholly derived from a sweeter, simpler, stout-hearted past. During his televised plea for a second wave of budget cuts last month, he seemed eager to finish with the drab statistics and demands for sacrifice, and get to the part where his idealism could shine...