Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ancient prehumans passed their days in unremarkable ways. Their language was probably little more than a system of gestures and grunts. Their diet, consisting of foraged fruits and crudely cooked animals, was not an easy one to force down--if the attachment points on their skulls for stout chewing muscles and their large front teeth suggest anything. Their skill in making tools was limited: a flaked stone or a crude ax was probably as good as it got. They arose in Africa about 1.8 million years ago and later ranged over an impressive expanse of land that included the Middle...
Call it the British spirit. In fashion, at least, London is reprising its swinging Carnaby Street days of 30 years ago. It may be that some of the duo's panache comes from being English. British culture is not hospitable to the zany, the innovative. It prefers solid, stout garments to high fashion, and Camilla is the paradigm, not Diana. So a young person seriously interested in a subversive field like fashion is likely to be highly rebellious...
Imagine waking up one morning and discovering an ungainly metal tower, 150 ft. tall, looming above the trees in your front yard. No, such a contraption--a stout monopole topped with a crown of antennas--doesn't yet mar my leafy corner of suburbia. But it will soon, unless I do something about it, and that prospect has spurred me, along with my neighbors, to churn out a torrent of letters, petitions and telephone calls. Why, we wonder, must Dallas-based PrimeCo Personal Communications plop its tower in a residential area of Du Page County, Illinois, when there are plenty...
...Stout became Executive Director of the Peace Development Fund in Amherst, where she continues her efforts by providing training and advice for social action groups across the country...
...Stout said she was enthusiastic about the response to her speech. She stressed the importance of "alliances with community organizations and universities," and said she wished that "every college campus...