Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Another stout retainer whose position has become increasingly important is Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Development Fred L. Glimp '50. It's no accident that the administrator who deals with alumni is the same one who's in charge of development (a higher-education code word for fundraising). For, as Harvard graduates soon learn, their financial obligation to their alma mater doesn't end as soon as they've paid off the last penny of interest on that $80,000. They are expected to keep the cash flowing for the rest of their long and (by the grace...
Diestel said that harboring terrorists was Honecker's "personal hobby." The former East German leader, recovering from cancer surgery, issued a stout denial of all the charges, insisting that East Germany "did its share" to combat terrorism...
...understand that now, and I do not easily forgive myself when I identify women as "the one with the powerful thighs" or "kind of stout." It makes me nauseated to hear men in the Yard say things like "She can't be fat, because she's supposed to have all these guys after...
Armed with axes, scythes and stout wooden clubs, rival groups of Romanians and ethnic Hungarians closed in on each other on a balmy spring evening last week. For a while only taunts and epithets were hurled. Then weapons flashed, and blood stained the Square of the Roses in downtown Tirgu Mures, an industrial city in Transylvania. By the time the army intervened, three people were dead and scores wounded...
From the Oval Office Bush will see not the scarred proletariat leaders of the old era, not the stout peasants who survived Nazi tanks, but lawyers, scientists, writers and an assortment of creative malcontents. Few will be easy to please, and none will be impressed by the Sixth Fleet. Around the White House winded staffers are predicting that Bush will want to meet them all, and if they don't find their way to Pennsylvania Avenue, he will drop in on them...