Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Regulation. When questioned about this completely illegal setup, Galveston's public officials made it known that they were stout defenders of the freedom to drink and gamble. Said ex-Police Commissioner Walter L. Johnson: "Galveston was wide open before I was born. It was wide open when I came into office, and I left it wide open. The people of Galveston want an open town." Ambrose Lukovich, his successor, added: "As a reformer ... I don't think I would have been elected." When the committee asked Mayor Herbert Y. Cartwright what it should recommend, he answered: "Regulated prostitution...
...Thanks, buddy," as someone handed him a lighted cigarette. A stout medic at the flaps suddenly shouted, "Litter case!" Two soldiers walked carefully into the tent, laid a stretcher on packing cases in the cone of light from a spotlight. The man on the stretcher moaned faintly. A field dressing lay across his eyes. His face was dirty, bearded, bloody. A doctor in an undershirt looked at the medical sergeant across the stretcher and shook his head in pity. Then he leaned over the wounded man and began gently to remove the field dressing...
...Stout-winded runners will race over a 26 mile 335 yard course from Hopkinton to Boston at the annual Patriot's Day Marathon tomorrow...
...Stout, amiable Joseph Pholien, a lawyer who helped found Belgium's postwar Social Christian Party, unexpectedly became Belgium's Premier last October, after the royal abdication crisis had forced Premier Jean Duvieusart to resign. Pholien grew very fond of his new office. He was irritated, however, by the globetrotting reminiscences of Foreign Minister Paul Van Zeeland, ex-Premier Paul-Henri Spaak, and other colleagues...
...London, half a dozen able staffers-most of them stout Socialists-have also quit, as fed up as Editor Chapman. Said Gordon Boshell, who had been hired to pep up the Herald's dreary feature page but left to freelance: "The paper doesn't want zip and it doesn't want brains. As a result, it's a dreadful hodgepodge of the mediocre...