Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week stout Ernie Bevin, His Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, walked ponderously up to the UNO rostrum and made a limited but specific speech that started a new deal for dependencies...
...Falls Trust Co., a blue and grey bank-on-wheels. Thurston will do a roving banking business within a go-mile radius of his Rumford Falls bank. The 23-ft. trailer is equipped with a cashier's counter, a teller's cage, a private office, and a stout safe...
...Middle Way. Czechoslovakia's political arena is limited to four parties: 1) the Communists, led by stout, pipe-smoking Deputy Prime Minister Klement Gottwald, 48, an exile in Moscow between 1939 and 1945; 2) the Social Democrats, led by mousy, opportunistic Prime Minister Fierlinger, 54; 3) the Socialists, led by Dr. Benes; and 4) the People's (Catholic) Party, led by portly, colorful, progressive Monsignor Jan Sramek, 75, ex-Prime Minister and now Deputy Prime Minister...
Prime Minister Fierlinger's Russophilism pulls the Social Democrats toward the Communists. But Dr. Benes has a stout friend in Monsignor Sramek, whose reports presumably account for the Vatican's belief that predominantly Catholic (74%) Czechoslovakia may indeed find its middle...
...started off down river with them and several other jungle children for his mission school. In the night, the Kirikas leapt upon a sleeping child. An awakened missionary collared them, saw that támara thorns were in their hands. Thereafter, the Kirikas were bound to the raft with stout ropes...