Word: stoutheartedness
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Somewhere in the back of the collective American mind lies a quaint and engaging folk memory that surfaces once a year on Thanksgiving. The Pilgrims. Stouthearted, pious, gray-clad churchmen marching to their meetinghouse with bell-mouthed musket and faith in God. Brave Miles Standish. Gentle Priscilla. "Speak for Yourself...
His first effort was a stouthearted call for Britons to join the spirit of the "I'm Backing Britain" campaign:
The popular notion of a no-hitter is a thing of beauty: a stouthearted pitcher smoking the ball down the alley with laser-beam control. The Baltimore Orioles' Steve Barber, 28, a fastballing lefthander who in six years with the Orioles has compiled an eminently respectable 91-66 won...
These examples seem to deal with trivia, but useful research does get lost almost daily in the scholar's effort to be so precise that he ends up being in comprehensible. In The Concepts of Over-and Under achievement, Psychologist Robert L. Thorndike, also of Teachers College, writes: "In...
Delivering an ex-champion's blunt verdict, Gene Tunney, who won his crown from Jack Dempsey in 1926, called the fight "a terrible hoax," adding that "it's shows like this that are killing boxing." They surely do it no good. In the prefight ballyhoo, everyone had been...