Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...export version (British Kittihawk). Although P-40s (British Tomahawks) are still giving a stout account of themselves in battle with Messerschmitt logs over Britain's Egyptian and Far Eastern fronts, the Kittihawk is a long jump ahead. It is slicker and leaner than the Tomahawks. From its wings bristle six .50-caliber machine guns. It has better armor for pilots and, best of all, it has a lot more speed-reputedly a top of 380-390 m.p.h...
Cleveland's Public Auditorium was honeycombed with booths where researchers set up colorful exhibits and, like barkers at a county fair, reached out and grabbed passersby. None of the medical exhibits was startlingly new; but doctors blessed with stout feet and inquisitive minds found lots to look...
...British had let them march down carrying their weapons: a tribute to the stout hearts which even the enemy knew they had shown...
Since the Emperor Napoleon III pacified Cambodia in 1863, inhabitants of that teeming, steaming puppet State in southern French Indo-China have flourished and multiplied under but three kings. Sisowath I, the second of these, died ripely at the age of 87, survived by 800 widows. Stout, chatty Sisowath II, who followed him, made the good-humored best of a job in which the emoluments were determined largely by the necessities of Finance Ministers in Paris...
True, the potato famine did help establish Free Trade. But how about those stout-hearted manufacturers (not industrialists) of Manchester who sacrificed their fortunes and in some cases their lives for the principles of Free Trade long before the fungus struck the potato crop...