Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aged cars and outworn farm machinery, long parked on flat acres to make them unhealthy for landing enemy aircraft, had been removed for salvage. Stout wires hung alongside broad highways for the same purpose had disappeared. Plate glass was replacing boarded-up shop windows. The Great Western Railway had restored 510 station names erased during the invasion scare. Trams, busses, subways and autos were removing some shades from their lights. Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard called for abolition of the blackout...
...gives its wearer better protection against burns and concussion injuries from exploding shells and depth charges in the water. Stowed in the jacket are several new gadgets to aid rescue: a yellow cap (to make its wearer more conspicuous), an electric lamp, a length of rope, a pair of stout loops for rescuers to grab. Another new item of Canadian lifeboat equipment is a supply of heavy socks impregnated with vaseline, to protect sailors from "immersion foot," a circulatory disorder that often leads to gangrene...
Last July, when the steaming heat lay stifling across northeast India, a perky, pint-sized, hickory-tough U.S. Army officer slung a sack of dollar watches over his shoulder and set out on foot through one of the world's wildest jungles. He was armed only with a stout Kentucky hunting knife. His escort was a file of stocky, semicivilized native bearers...
...large, muscular hand, with hard skin, short, broad fingers, oval palm and few deep crease-lines indicates a simple, elementary type of person. He has a broad, rather stout body, a quiet, steady, good-natured temperament, rather slow intelligence, is good at sports and physical labor but tends toward high blood pressure and related physical ills...
Down the first base line of the Varsity diamond, the groundkeeper is wheeling his lining barrow, but instead of dribbling lime, it sprinkles seeds which will soon sprout into lusty egg-plants. Then peek in the Stadium itself. Hundreds of stout Radclifflians, wearing yellow yellow badges labeled "Official," are milling about on what used to be the scene of historic gridiron duels. But now the turf is being torn up in long, deep-brown furrows. And the old familiar chant of "Rah-rah-rah" that formerly echoed through the Stadium of a weekend afternoon has given place...