Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fencing the Street. At the spot where the newly gashed border joins the reinforced frontier of Red Czechoslovakia, 18 of the 22 houses in the Bavarian village of Mödlareuth lay on the east side. A Vopos detachment swung into the village, and built a stout wooden fence, ten feet high, clear through the main street. Miller Wurziger's grain mill stood in the way, so the Vopos tore it down. Wurziger and his son jumped from an upstairs window of their house and dragged Frau Wurziger to safely through the pig sty. Of Mödlareuth...
...Rome correspondent for Pravda, stout, blonde Olga Cecetkina, 50, was like no other foreign reporter in Italy. She traveled up & down the country making pro-Communist speeches, filed stores to Moscow that were often pure fiction. Even when she reported speeches by Italian Communist Leader Palmiro Togliatti, said the Italian government, she added declarations that Togliatti never made. According to Correspondent Cecetkina, Togliatti said: "The only leaders we obey are Stalin and his associates." Actually, even the government agreed that Togliatti is too smart a politician to say anything like that to an Italian audience. Last week the Italian government...
...grubby, working-class suburb of Spandau in the British sector of Berlin stands a huge, rust red castle surrounded by 15 acres of grounds and a stout brick heptagonal wall. This is Spandau Fortress...
...Trades and Labor Council, with a total membership of 90,000, declared: "This is the first crack of the Nazi whip." In Cape Town, Opposition Leader Jacob Strauss, as stout an anti-Communist as Dr. Malan, promised that his United Party would stand by the trade unions...
...Penn State meet, a Philadelphia schoolteacher, 26-year-old Bob Stout, upset the Bronx Turners' favored Edward Scrobe, to take the all-round title and win the No. 1 Olympic berth on the men's team. A fellow member of Stout's Philadelphia club, wiry Housewife Clara Schroth Lomady, 31, won the all-round honors for women for the fourth year, clinched her No. 1 Olympic spot for the second time...