Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Producer David Susskind (see SHOW BUSINESS). Even Khrushchev's grisly jokes went sour. Asked by newsmen if he had changed his mind on disarmament, Khrushchev produced a penknife, said "I have this," and wondered aloud if the knife "could puncture such a sack" as the U.S.'s stout ambassador to the U.N., James J. Wadsworth...
...religion is a schizoid one, being also a political system. The fear-even amounting to dread-of Catholicism that we Protestants feel has nothing to do with the purely religious aspects of the faith. It is Catholicism as a political system that affrights us. John Kennedy's stout denial that it could happen to him causes us to suspect that he does not know his own church very well-or that he wants the presidency so hungrily that he will say anything to get it. Either way, it is a bad risk, and it is my duty to warn...
Pittsburgh, Pa., welcomes its first World Series in 33 years today with stout hopes that the home town Pirates can handle the power-laden, experienced New York Yankees...
...most remarkable figures in thoroughbred racing is France's stout carelessly dressed Germaine Vuillier 71, the grandmotherly breeding manager behind the traditions and the profit of the famed Khan family stables. In recent months Madame Vuillier's success has even begun to make a racing buff out of family's spokesman who has always been bored by horses: 23-year-old Karim the reigning Aga Khan and son of the Sportsman Aly Khan, who was killed in May at the wheel of his Lancia. When Aly's will was published last week, it declared that...
...plucking off the worms, squeezes a new measure of realism out of the miracle. And his disciples are minor masterpieces of winy characterization. They are no heroes; Peter's nickname, for instance, is "Windmill," for his susceptibility to every change in the breeze of opinion. Matthew is "short, stout, jaundiced; his hands yellow and soft, his fingers inky, nails black; he had long hairy ears and a high voice like a eunuch's." The one strong man of the lot is a red-bearded giant named Judas Iscariot...