Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stout Credentials. "I am delighted with the prospect that a real contribution to the rule of law among nations can be forthcoming from [the new Duke] center," the President wrote. "To depose the rule of force, and to enthrone the rule of law in the disposition of international differences is imperative . . . I am glad that you will be serving as a special consultant to me even as you press the effort to bring nearer the day when the rule of law is as normal among nations as it now is among individuals. There are doubtless many ways in which governmental...
...Propagandist. Crisp, competent Yvette, now a stout matron of 36, gave a fine display of peasant shrewdness. She wrote a personal appeal to President Eisenhower,, got daughter Dorothy to write to a French radio program, Vous Etes Formidables ("You Are Terrific"), asking that her father's predicament be broadcast. More than 100,000 letters poured into the U.S. embassy in Paris begging that Wayne be pardoned...
...doctor's job was keeping the children healthy with balanced diets and three checkups a week. The father was their stout shield against excessive publicity. He tried to hide the quints' birth by registering them separately, and when the secret got out, he turned away reporters with short answers: "They are just children. Go find yourself a road show...
...Sabbath for another week of work, the bright rays were already obscured. Nasserist flames had burst out with explosive violence in Iraq, most friendly and most prosperous of the West's Arab neighbors in the Middle East; King Feisal's government had been thrown down, its stout-hearted leaders were either dead or defeated refugees, and Nassermen were in control. President Eisenhower sat down with the National Security Council to study one more crisis in the grim and ceaseless march of history...
...plot against him. The King had ordered the arrest of 60 Jordanian army officers, including one of his most trusted lieutenants. Presumably, the plots in Amman and Baghdad to kill both young Kings had been timed to go off almost simultaneously. Hearing the news of the revolt in Baghdad, stout-hearted young King Hussein this week proclaimed himself new head of the Arab Union, and broadcast to his people: "We shall pilot the ship toward a safe harbor, relying on our loyal people and army...