Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, it was a crushing defeat. In the by-election in Grey North, Ontario, the Tories this week elected stout, ham-handed Garfield Case to Parliament...
...sheets ("It's too cold for sheets"), the lack of heat ("There's no law you have to keep a school piping hot"), the single dining-study-play room ("I don't think there's a law [against it]"). Even more puzzling was the stout defense of Duncan and his school which the older students, backed by their embarrassed parents...
...Armored retook Saint-Vith, a town of bloody and gallant memory. North of there, the Germans still stood on Belgian soil in a small bend of the border. They were smacked by the famed 1st Infantry, the stout peg which had held down the north shoulder of Rundstedt's salient. The doughboys attacked at 4 a.m. in a heavy snowstorm, without artillery preparation, and gained two miles...
...armistice. Among his ministers: an author and student of agrarian reform; a history professor jailed by Horthy for "subversive activities" ; a geology professor and cousin of Count Paul Teleki, ex-Premier who committed suicide in April 1941. Notably absent was Hungary's top Communist, Matyas Rakosi, sixtyish, stout ex-commissar in the Communist Government of Béla Kun after World War I, later vice president of the Comintern. Rakosi presumably was in Moscow...
Boots and Massage. In contrast to U.S forces, the British have no trench-foot problem, even though they have been actually wading through Holland. Their stout workmen-type boots and gum boots have turned out to be drier than anything the U.S. has produced. But the most important factor is that British soldiers are required to keep their boots waxed, to massage their feet with oil and change frequently to dry socks...