Word: stouter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effect, Ford has designed a new Lincoln model to fill the competitive gap left by the Lincoln Zephyr, abandoned in 1941. Next week, Ben Ford will bring out his new Mercury. It has been spruced up to make it a stouter competitor to De Soto, Pontiac, and the light Oldsmobiles and Buicks. It is bigger and will probably cost more than the 1948 Mercury...
...campesino's opposition has only grown stouter. He wants oxen for plowing and cows for milk-not pesos, which he is afraid either to put in a bank or keep at home. The fact that his neighbor's cattle are infected with foot-&-mouth disease seems to him a poor reason for shooting his own herd...
Chronicle'recalled: "Britain's cause never had a stouter friend...
...Home-Ola is no architectural gem. What it lacks in beauty, it makes up in strength. Cajun Jack Willis claims that Home-Ola's plywood walls have proved 20 times stouter than conventional walls, will withstand a 125 mile-an-hour wind...
...Doggie Trick." In the absence of adequate explanation there are anomalies that might puzzle stouter heads than the leathernecks'. Though they have been told that they are in China to disarm and repatriate Japs, they find other Japs, still armed, standing railroad guard duty alongside them. The marines' word for this is "jacfu"-joint American-Chinese foul...