Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Against attempts to whip up hatred of the enemy, the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America has raised a militantly Christian and indignant voice. In spite of such whipcracks as Author Rex Stout's article, "We Shall Hate or We Shall Fail," the Council was glad to report that the country was singularly free from hatred...
Statesman at Play & Work. In a graphically described roadhouse ("Around a corner an arch of stout knotty pine opened into a big living room lit from skulls of longhorn cattle with electric bulbs in them set in a row round the varnished log walls"), Crawford is seen at play in blue-striped pajamas with a statuesque torch singer. In time he acquires a semi-Fascist radio station, is surrounded by more & more sinister henchmen. It becomes Tyler's business to take the rap for Crawford before a Federal grand jury and to be publicly repudiated by the demagogue...
...onetime cost accountant from Cumberland, Md. One of his captains, Lloyd Marr, 31, of Lamesa, Tex., trained in civilian life by working up statistics for the U.S. Treasury Department. In commando training, bulk and muscle are assets. But the training-wise instructors know they are not indispensable. A stout heart counts most...
...Nelson had called in another stout assistant, who tackled what was, in effect, the same job from a different angle. General Electric Co.'s President Charles Wilson is one of the country's outstanding production engineers. In WPB he concentrated on production schedules. In a few short weeks he had cut in on Eberstadt, cut in on the military. The armed forces protested, told WPB it should stick to the stuff that guns are made...
Last week's announcements told of stout Jap resistance, particularly around Shortland Island, 300 miles northwest of Guadalcanal. In a raid on shipping at nearby Buin, U.S. bombers encountered 45 Zeros. In a raid on the same area the following day, eleven Zeros, two U.S. bombers, six U.S. fighters were shot down. Later that week, low-flying bombers had to duck through strong ack-ack fire to score direct hits on four Jap cargo ships...