Word: stoutest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From an Eminence. Moscow's Pravda lost no time in proclaiming the Chancellor's action "involuntary," and the combination of abruptness, peevishness and pressure lent some color to the interpretation. Yet after the first public outcry that the West had lost one of its stoutest men at an awkward moment. Adenauer's decision began to appear a wise recognition that he was no longer indispensable. West Germany was no longer just one indomitable man but a strong and prosperous nation of 52 million people...
...years have gone undefeated, only to lose to someone who happened to have a particularly strong day. And cross-country being the largely psychological sport that it is, the sight of ten or tweve pedigree runners from the Ivy League and the service academies is enough to unnerve the stoutest heart...
Fifteen Hundred Miles. After the Kurds came the Taochians, bitter-end tribesmen who, when one of their forts was stormed, committed mass suicide. Next were the Chalybeans, the "stoutest men" the Greeks had yet faced, who fought them hand to hand and, when they killed a Greek, cut off his head and "sang and danced," waving it in front of the survivors. Armenia was an agony, a land filled with blizzards. Men "who had been blinded by the snow or lost their toes by frostbite" had to be left behind...
Within the debate-divided ranks of U.S. scientists, the stoutest advocate of continued testing is the University of California's Hungarian-born Nuclear Physicist Edward Teller, famed as "father of the H-bomb" (TIME, Nov. 18). In a newly published book,* Teller sets forth, as he sees them, the facts about radioactive fallout and the reasons for going on with nuclear tests. "Fear of what we do not know or do not understand has been with us in all ages," he writes. "Against [it] there exist two weapons: understanding and courage. Of the two, courage is more important...
...should give private industry. AEC's position is that nuclear power for peaceful purposes should be largely a private venture, with AEC supplying only limited funds. Originally, businessmen supported the idea, lest nuclear energy grow into a giant public-power program. Now their position has changed. Even the stoutest private-power men feel that the program needs a strong infusion of Government aid because commercial nuclear power is so new, so complex and so costly that private companies cannot carry the burden alone. Says President Newton I. Steers Jr., of the Atomic Development Mutual Fund, Inc. (assets: $45 million...