Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plot new directions before proceeding farther on that treacherous and often discouraging voyage, the quest for true peace with Russia. Actually they met-in the first full-dress conference of leaders of allied governments since Potsdam-not because they had dramatic new plans but because one of them, stout and determined old Winston Churchill, wanted a conference...
HARVARD YALE Bill Weber (83) LE (81) Bill Stout Bernic O'Brien (75) LT (76) Bill Prentiss Bill Meigs (61) LG (62) Dick Polich Jeff Coolidge (53) C (56) Jim Doughan Tim Anderson (60) RG (63) Thorne Shugart Nick Culolias (70) RT (72) Harris Ashton Joe Ross (85) RE (83) Harry Benninghoff Jerry Marsh (22) QB (12) Jim Lopez Dick Clasby (40) LHB (43) Pete Shears Bob Cowles (11) RHB (10) Jim Armstrong John Culver (34) FB (31) Courad Corelli
...still let the blades ride free (to kill gyroscopic effect and preserve a balance of lift), supported horizontally only by centrifugal force. The hub was an engineer's nightmare. There was only one way to ferret out its many early imperfections. Sikorsky had the VS-300 tied down with stout ropes to keep it from rising more than a few feet. Then he climbed into the seat in his dark business suit and upturned fedora, started the engine and began?as he had in a Russian pasture 30 years before?trying to learn to fly a strange, new and hideously...
...Where, in a famed sonnet and famed historical boner, Poet John Keats got him confused with the conqueror of Mexico, and gave "stout Cortes" the credit for discovering the Pacific...
Radcliffe's rejection of the Dior lift has put the fashion-conscious young lady on a par with college women in the east. Her insistence on comfort over submission has also won her the hearts of eastern college males. When weekends are cold, every stout-hearted man would like to have his date sensibly rather than sexily dressed. That way they both have no worries...