Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...skill, he balances Mrs. Morel's almost morbid domination of Paul's sensitive and passionate nature with the physical inhibitions produced in Miriam by her mother's puritanical beliefs. The novel is rather humorless; Cardiff creates several badly needed moments of comic relief--such as an address from a stout suffragette. Most important, he never loses sight of Mrs. Morel; her influence pervades the film at every turn...
...agencies, teach ers colleges, textbook publishers and the National Education Association. Specific regulations accompany present federal aid, such as those long set for vocational edu cation under the Smith-Hughes Act. The great foundations pour millions into educational TV and radical school designs, prodding schools to improve. Even that stout defender of local control, James...
...villa overlooking Lake Neuchâtel, with Mont Blanc gleaming like a picture postcard in the background, a sedentary, stout Swiss just turned 41 lives contentedly with his wife, three children, and a collection of dogs and cats, and turns out some of the most wry and bitter writing of this wry and bitter time. Friedrich Duerrenmatt is best known for his unsettling play The Visit, in which a vengeful old lady manipulates the greed of a whole town to make its respectable citizens collaborate in the ritual murder of her former lover. In The Deadly Game, a traveling salesman...
Published for Pubs. First issued in Brit ain in 1955 by Guinness stout to settle bar bets, the book of mosts quickly became a must for pubs, libraries, schools, and school kids trying to outsmart their teachers. It now rates as Britain's bestselling reference book. Four British editions and one in the U.S. have sold 540,000 copies; soon to appear are French and German editions...
Guinness Managing Director Sir Hugh Beaver missed everything in sight. Abashed. Sir Hugh tried to find out just how fast those elusive birds had been flying. He failed. But in his search he stumbled on a promotional opportunity: since many equally obscure points are disputed over pints of stout, why not publish a book for Britain's 73,000 pubs? It would keep the company's name, and product, on everybody's lips...