Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...casing the place, while the proprietor and his wife eyed him suspiciously. After closing time Kellerman went around to the back, broke in through a window and made for the cash register. As he had expected, the suspicious couple returned. While the owner held Kellerman at bay with a stout whisky bottle, his wife called the cops...
...rest of the game a stout Adams defense held the highly favored Elephants in check. Guard Bob Picard and line backer Captain Gus Vlahos held up the center of the Gold Coast line, while quarterback Jack King and Hal Levy stood out in the secondary...
Most of Asia's old & new nations have yet to grasp the wisdom of Benjamin Franklin's advice: better to hang together than to hang separately. The Philippines' President Elpidio Quirino, long a stout advocate of a Pacific alliance modeled after NATO, has got nowhere, partly because the U.S. wants to delay such an alliance, and partly because Indonesia's leaders, like India's, still dream of a Third Force position between the Communist and the anti-Communist worlds. Recently, two young Filipino veterans, Jaime Ferrer and Eleuterio Adevoso, had an idea: Why not bring...
...support swathed his injured spine, holding his neck and back rigid. His weight had dropped from 111 to 90 pounds. His legs and one hand seemed so paralyzed that he could scarcely move. He was a pitiful sight as he hobbled along, supported by his faithful wife and a stout cane. Surprised as he was at the request, the gentle Abbé Louis Desprez, pastor of Chaumont, readily agreed to let Gilbert join the annual pilgrimage to Lourdes in search of a cure...
Democratic Presidential Candidate Adlai Stevenson sat and listened to a stout defense of himself from the pulpit of the Springfield, Ill. Presbyterian Church. Departing from the Scripture to comment on current events, the Rev. Richard Graebel thundered that Republican Senator Everett Dirksen's statement that Stevenson was the worst Illinois governor of the 20th century was "a blatant lie." Said Pastor Graebel later: he was not aware that the governor was in his church...