Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next fiscal year (June 30, 1960), the U.S. budget is in fact in balance, it will be a political miracle. Vice President Richard Nixon is among Republicans who fear that stout dedication to a balanced budget may type Republicans as rearguardists just when liberals are winning elections...
...portrait of Mexico's President Adolfo López Mateos, TIME turned to one of Mexico's leading artists, Rufino Tamayo. A stout antiCommunist, Tamayo has long been frozen out of the bread-and-butter work of decorating the public buildings of his native land by the Communist clique of muralists headed by David Siqueiros and the late Diego Rivera. As a result, he leads the life of a wandering expatriate, painted this week's cover in Paris. He recently finished another Paris commission-a mural depicting Prometheus bringing heavenly fire to men, in the newly opened...
...FOUR TO GO, by Rex Stout (Viking; $2.95), is "compact and full of meat . . . The use of the mind is. as always, pre-eminent...
...government approached last week's elections to the Senate and the House. In the nine years since he was swept into office on an anti-Socialist wave, the Prime Minister has given his country prosperity, has whipped rising inflation, boosted pensions, introduced a national health service, proved a stout friend of the U.S. and Britain. But stolid, unimaginative Bob Menzies himself has never been personally popular. His chronic testiness ("He must be drunk or paid to come here as a pest," he angrily shouted at a heckler) has not helped him much. When his car was spattered with eggs...
Then there was a meeting of the seven full professors. Again, Briggs was on top of the situation. First he listened patiently to several reasons why the proposal did not make sense.... Brockberg, a stout and voluble man who lectured to large sophomore groups because he generalized easily and had a dramatic manner, said he had heard of a dissertation done at the University of Chicago which seriously questioned the thesis behind one of Greg's best known books. And Coombs, a dour and melancholy man who got his final promotion on the strength of a book he never managed...