Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little Paul Joseph Goebbels could fool the people no longer. Though they showed no sign of crackup to the outside world, though they knew their army and even, perhaps, the vestiges of their surface navy, would put up a good stout fight, it was not so simple as all that...
...latest stout-heart to brave the business bogey of prefabricated housing is U.S. Steel Corp.'s dynamic, hardheaded president, Ben Fairless. Big Steel, which has never had any direct contact with the ultimate consumer, last week announced the purchase of a controlling interest in the Gunnison Housing Corp. of New Albany...
...latest ideas in landscape gardening. "I don't propose to do much," Sir George would say casually, "just a sheet of water and a line of statues." He also liked practical jokes, if he was not the victim. Once he arranged a collapsible Chippendale chair for a stout alderman, then accidentally sat on it himself. When Osbert laughed, Sir George reproved him sternly: "I might have most seriously injured my back...
...importance of this action was evident. A year ago carriers could not have penetrated Norwegian waters without grave risk; the Nazis were keeping up a stout cover of land-based fighters over the shipping which must supplement Norway's rudimentary railroad system. The carrier-borne attack which crippled the Tirpitz showed that the cover was thinning. Last week's communique indicated that it was practically nonexistent. The Germans needed all their fighters to protect the heartland...
...April Monday, as he had done each week of spring, General Bradley left his London headquarters to visit his troops in the field. Promptly at 8:15, having breakfasted on Lend-Lease powdered eggs, he stepped out of the officers' mess and into a waiting Cadillac. Sergeant Alex Stout, a black-haired young man who used to jeep the General around Sicily, sent the long black car purring southward...