Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tiny U.S. air force in China was not yet strong enough to keep up a steady offensive thrust against the enemy. But it was stout enough in fighter strength to meet the Jap when it found him. Last week it found him every time, and found him before he was able to get at his bombing objectives. For that, the few remaining veterans of A.V.G. and the youngsters of the Army Air Forces' Twenty-Third Pursuit Group could thank the wondrous Chinese air-raid warning system...
...only that Nason Billings had died at sea, on one of those seagoing tugs that defy subs and storms to do rescue and salvage work. In a weather-beaten old house in a little Maine fishing village last week an oak-hearted old man sat down and scribbled a stout reply...
...look over that vital area on the Kwantung army's flank. Perhaps, as some Chinese think, Itagaki may time an attack to protect his flank and close the long-unclosed "China Incident." Else General Pai and China's northern armies under General Hu Tsung-nan may be stout aids to General Stern in Siberia...
...soon they were balancing teacups on their knees in white folks' houses, smoking tight-rolled English cigarets and guzzling flat English ale. When they wrote the folks back home, perhaps they complained of the damp English weather, the limp food. Or perhaps they mentioned stout John Parrish, pubkeeper of The Bull, who said: "My pub is open to everyone who behaves himself. The Negroes could teach some of our boys some manners...
...CASTLE ON THE HILL-Elizabeth Goudge-Coward-McCann ($2.50). This rather touching, mildly mystical story of England-after-Dunkirk transforms England's caste system into one big family of stout-fellas. High point of this social salad-mixing comes when a shy little housekeeper, Miss Brown, proposes to her elderly patrician employer, Charles Birley. No snob, Birley prefers bachelorhood. But Miss Brown's leveling instincts achieve satisfaction in others who need her: two cockney children and a soul-sick refugee violinist whom she selflessly agrees to marry...