Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nutcracker cracked the New York company for a stout $80,000, but by week's end it seemed certain to pay off: the public had bought out all announced performances. Perhaps the only dissenting voice was raised by Dance Critic John Martin of the Times, who pointed out that Nutcracker has too little formal dancing and not even much plot, advised fellow purists, unless bringing children, to skip the first...
...mixed blessings of world leadership is the U.S. preoccupation with its many and varied allies. Around the volatile Italians, the politically neurotic French and the sensitive Spaniards, there is never a dull moment. Even those stout hearts of oak, the British, sometimes lash about and quiver like the restless bamboo...
Young Revolutionary. General Chiang Ching-kuo at 44 is an experienced hand both at ferreting out subversives and at educating the uncertain - he was trained by the Russians themselves. A round-faced man growing slightly stout, who wears his jet black hair in a crew cut, Chiang Ching-kuo is a bit of a mystery even to intimates...
Paul Beck, John Bidwell (by vote of the Faculty Committee on Athletics), William D. Engs, J. Donald French, Harold J. C. Gerry (Capt.), Hubert C. Maguire, Jr., Franklin P. Nahigian, Emil R. San Soucie, Arthur A. Wills, 3rd, and Neil R. Stout...
...mother again, and this time her parents were only too eager to insist on a match. In the spring of 1788 they were married, but they did not live happily ever after. For one thing, Burns had reservations about the earthiness of his Jean: "Mrs. Burns is getting stout again, & laid as lustily about her today at breakfast as a Reaper from the corn-ridge...