Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French airfield at Nasan, between the Red River delta and Laos, lay all but deserted within its ring of trenches and stout barbed wire. It had been by passed by the Communist Viet Minh forces on their way into Laos. Under the broiling sun the colonel in command, walking disconsolately along the airstrip, looked up as he heard the sound of air craft engines. Within seconds a C-47 airplane, its wings and tail riddled by Red ack-ack fire, rolled onto the runway. The pilot braked it to a stop and his passenger, a prim, neat little man wearing...
...wife, an American, had died in 1914; his eldest son Louis was killed in World War I. When his youngest son, Peter, lost his life in World War II, Belloc gave up letters. He was already an old man. He lived on in his Sussex farmhouse, a short, stout figure, red of face, wearing a collar several times too large for him, a black hat on his round head. People said he looked like a typical John Bull. There last week, at the age of 82, he fell into his living-room fire, died four days later from burns. Years...
Father Rohrbacher needed help and he got it. In 1947, he had written to Father John A. O'Brien of Notre Dame University, who is also a Catholic leader in the National Conference of Christians and Jews.* Stout, handsome Father O'Brien could step into any casting office and get a role as a Catholic priest. His voice is rich and he uses it effectively, he knows how to make people feel warm and at home, and the right words seem to grow in his mouth and fall ripely from it. He looks far more the evangelist than...
There were cheers from thousands, and Orangemen toasted their Queen's coming in gallons of frothy stout, the national elixir. The Queen and husband Philip spent the night at Government House, watched the traditional lambeg drummers lambasting their three-foot drums with ferocious, stout-filled glee. Eventually, they gave Elizabeth a headache, and Sir Basil Brooke, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, popped his head outside to ask them to desist. They did, but said goodnight by playfully clouting him with their caps...
...Stylish Stout. In San Gabriel, Calif., police wondered why 230-lb. Alberta Patoux always seemed either fatter or thinner, arrested her inside a store, found 13 cartons of stolen cigarettes stowed in her tent-size bloomers...