Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Battle of Louisiana, had been pushing north to take the city. On Sunday the second phase of the maneuvers was to end. And so far as Shreveporters (patriotically wearing red brassards on their arms) could see, their own smaller (117,000) Red Army was putting up a stout and resourceful defense...
...Bell's Airacobra pursuit which has several rare features, engine behind the pilot), strange, swift, mysterious; the prefix Z (for obsolete), over age 28; O-47 (North American observation plane), a girl from Dorothy Parker's couplet-wears glasses; B-19 (Douglas' huge bomber), stylish stout...
submerged in Manhattan; unconfirmed diffident bachelor wishes interesting correspondent with high ideals, tolerant mind, stout heart and playful disposition, not too clever...
Back of the steel the North Carolina's crew was grinning, shaking hands, cheering. For that night a ship that had been an impersonal, vastly complicated structure of machines had come to life. She was real, stout, nervy. She was the kind of person her oldtimers had known before, that her recruits (more than a third of enlisted strength) would soon love with the fierce ship loyalty of navy men. She could take it, and deliver...
...Tough, stout-hearted Dutch, Belgians, Luxemburgers! Tormented, mishandled, shamefully castaway peoples of Yugoslavia! Glorious Greece, now subjected to the crowning insult of rule by the Italian jackanapes! Yield not an inch. Keep your souls clean from all contact with the Nazis. Make them feel, even in their hour of brutish triumph, that they are the moral outcasts of mankind. Help is coming. Mighty forces are arming in your behalf. Have faith. Have hope. Deliverance is sure...