Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flames leaped up from the bosom of the city, what shaken Germans felt on the ground, was a new epoch in warfare. The awful power of independent air might had failed for the German because he tried it with too little on a nation whose soul was too stout...
...Malta, German airmen operating from Italy stepped up their raids until they were almost continuous. The banging they gave the stout little island could no longer be explained as a show to establish a point of pride. The Axis was pocketing too many losses for that-in April a total of 137 aircraft, by British count. Malta went on taking it and fighting back, proudly showed a statue of Victoria, respectable, white and undamaged in the ragged mess of Valetta's disheveled ruins...
BLACK ORCHIDS-Rex Stout-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Nero Wolfe and his ebullient amanuensis Archie Goodwin are here at top form in two "novellas" -"Black Orchids" and "Cordially Invited to Meet Death." The first concerns a cleverly contrived murder at New York's annual Flower Show. The second features an adroit bit of poisoning in the fantastic Riverdale ménage- and menagerie-of a successful party-arranger for Manhattan society. First-class entertainment...
...there came a hint from Detroit's unconventional Bill Stout, whose famed engineering-jargon dictum is: "Simplicate, and add more light-ness." Said Designer Stout: "Airplane manufacturers know immensely more about making gears than auto manufacturers. They can build a better, bigger...
General Adolphe Eugene Marie Sicé (pronounced See-say), High Commissioner of Free French Africa, stopped off in Manhattan on his way to London last week and received encomiums on his stout work in freeing French Equatorial Africa from the rule of Vichy. Earlier stout work by the General was not so much in the news. But it was flies-specifically the tsetse fly-from which General Sicé had first set his black people free...