Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then Herter walked over to a bank of cameras in the strong sunlight, read a stout statement on the 41 days of drab dialogue in Geneva. Said...
Citation: "A jovial soul of magnetic human qualities, wise of statecraft and learned in the law, in the fashion of one inured to the blasts that torment the summit of Everest, he mans his lofty eminence with serenity and aplomb begat of a stout heart and the instinct for unswerving rectitude...
Each week hundreds of such hapless "volunteers" are packed into open trucks and, guarded by African "boss boys" with stout leather sjamboks (whips), shipped to distant farms for three or six months, often unable even to notify relatives or employers that they are leaving. South African police instituted the system in 1954, but its workings were not generally known, even in South Africa, until 33-year-old Johannesburg Lawyer Joel Carlson started a series of habeas corpus actions fortnight...
...sports-car accident. Born in Hartford, Conn., home of Fuller Brush, Avard Fuller started out to be an aeronautical engineer, decided in 1937 to join his father's company. He has been a door-to-door brush salesman but is best known for innovations in brushmaking machinery. Stout, balding Avard Fuller is a yachtsman (48-ft. ocean racing yawl) and a sports...
Frightfully keen on Caribbean uprisings (she was a stout supporter of Fidel Castro), Dame Margot joined Tito in Panama a fortnight ago just as he decided to have a go at overthrowing President Ernesto de la Guardia. But Tito ran into trouble from the moment he tried to get his arms and his seven-man army together on an invasion-bent shrimp boat named Elaine (he is part owner of a fishing fleet). In a chartered yacht named Nola, he rendezvoused with Elaine and a pair of arms-laden outboard-motor boats. One of the outboards' cargoes was transferred...