Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Donald Nelson's War Production Board, rapidly growing biceps, triceps and stout pectoral muscles, got two important new additions to the staff last week. Both were brought in by Vice Chairman Charles Edward Wilson, to help him exercise his new powers over production scheduling. Both were top-flight production men, expert, headstrong and tough...
...rupees-My first bill at the Cecil, which is really a great hotel. But they've run out of Western whiskies, so now they are serving such tiger wash as "Dew of the Himalayas." They have no beer either, but only stout. Our Bill Fisher likes stout, but he's a Yale...
...While equipping these men and the Army on its own shores, the U.S. has sent stout help to the British in Egypt (more than 1,000 planes, "many hundreds" of tanks, 20,000 trucks). It has increased Lend-Lease assistance to all allies to the rate of $10,000,000,000 a year. With Great Britain, it has shipped to Russia this year, over the northern route alone, more than 3,000 planes, 4,000 tanks, 30,000 trucks-though not all arrived...
...shook his head slightly, as if to say, "What the heck, I can't be that good." Everybody expected him to break down emotionally when he was called upon for a speech. But George Norris surprised them. His eyes were a little watery but his voice was stout...
Racegoers loved Big Gus for his stout heart. Year in, year out, in the sticks as well as the big time, he asked no quarter, always gave his backers a run for their money. One summer, at Detroit, he won three races within eight days. One winter at Tropical Park he ran off with the Christmas, New Year's and Orange Bowl Handicaps on successive Saturdays. Cincinnati fans will never forget the day he outran Seabiscuit in a race at River Downs. But the biggest kick he ever gave his admirers was his performance in the Rhode Island Handicap...