Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rogues. Charles Greenough Mortimer was born in Brooklyn, the son of a brilliant but unbusinesslike inventor father and a sensible, businesslike mother, who is still alive at 86. A stout boy who learned to fight early because his playmates called him "Fatty," he was an only child and one of a long string of Charles Greenough Mortimers. "I made the mistake once," he says, "of tracing the Mortimers back to England. I got as far as the one who seduced the wife of Edward II and I stopped. They were all rogues...
Because of its personalized approach to its readers, Aufbau has developed a stout reader loyalty, gone far to uphold Editor George's claims that it has grown into "a paper for uprooted people all over the world." Wrote one Aufbau reader: "Gratitude alone would be an important factor in my continuing to read the paper...
Last week Dawkins was promoted to Oxford's first team to play against Blackheath, one of Britain's top teams. Treating Blackheath as though it were Navy, Dawkins crashed home on two tries in Oxford's 36-0 victory. Hoisting a friendly pint of stout with his opponents after the game ("Something we unfortunately don't have in American football"), Dawkins had no illusions that he had yet nailed down a berth on the Oxford team that will play Cambridge. Said he modestly: "I am just getting past the stage where I'm getting used...
...nicest ways to get awa> from it all is to go climb a tree-every child knows that. Seen from a stout limb and framed in shade, the world seems a safer and more interesting place. But sooner or later the child must come down to earth. In this novel, the hero never comes down, and neither does Italian Author Italo Calvino. He seems to have had great fun dreaming up his fantasy; all he asks of the reader is a suspended intelligence and a taste for the bizarre...
...White Sox stout pitching and tight defense went for naught yesterday. The Dodgers threw away the script (or shouldn't that be mentioned with Chicago in the Series?) and bombed Early Wynn, Dick Donovan and Turk Lown for six runs in the second inning, which offset Kluszewski's third homer, in the bottom of the frame...