Search Details

Word: stoutly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Washington, Adenauer's speech caused scarcely a ripple. As U.S. official dom saw it, the Chancellor had simply restated some harmless truisms about U.S.-European relations. Some European diplomats, however, were bewildered by the speech, felt that Adenauer was altering his own stout stand against a foreign policy of neutralism, a policy he had so long disdained with the comment: "One cannot sit between two chairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Between Two Chairs | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

Conversation (Thurs. 8 :30 p.m., NBC). Detective stories, discussed by Rex Stout, Jacques Barzun, Clifton Fadiman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Jul. 30, 1956 | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

Fargo, N. Dak., minutes after Mrs. Garner Halvorson had finished singing "Bless these walls, so firm and stout" in the Plymouth Congregational Church, the plaster fell from the walk and part of the basement ceiling crashed to the floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 16, 1956 | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

...elephants, petulant rhinos, man-eating lions and fiendish crocodiles with an eye for a pretty girl-in this instance, Janet Leigh. In fact, most of the denizens have their eye on Janet, possibly because she romps invitingly about the camp in negligee and paddles nude in jungle pools. Only stout Victor remains impervious while he tracks down the Mau Mau who murdered his family. Once revenge is taken care of, however, he melts pliantly into Janet's arms. And so-there they can be left as the crimson sun sinks slowly into the green hush of the jungle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 2, 1956 | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

Life with Mother. In Columbus, Ohio, Joe Stout asked the court for a restraining order commanding his mother-in-law "to desist from calling, talking to, associating with or contacting" his wife Dorothy, filed a $50,000 damage suit against her, charging that she exerted "a hypnotic influence and control over her daughter, sometimes termed 'brainwashing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 2, 1956 | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

Previous | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | Next