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This agreement is remarkably like one Britain has long been trying to sell-over stout Egyptian opposition. The most important differences: 1) the British governor general would now be hemmed in by advisers; 2) before the second vote is taken, all British forces are to be withdrawn from the Sudan and the civil services are to be "Sudanized"; 3) the plebiscite, to be administered by an international commission, is to restrict the choices to two-complete independence or union with Egypt. There would be no opportunity to choose dominion status within the British Commonwealth...
...Alfred E. Stearns, Fuess's predecessor at Andover, was anything but a "dryasdust pedant... At times he displayed a fiery temper, and on at least two occasions peremptorily 'fired' an instructor in anger, only to repent and apologize before sunset. Sometimes he made enemies by the stout fashion in which he spoke out, but the boys liked his ... strong convictions ... He continually stressed . . . moral issues; and like Thomas Arnold he was more interested in forming character than in producing scholars...
...casing the place, while the proprietor and his wife eyed him suspiciously. After closing time Kellerman went around to the back, broke in through a window and made for the cash register. As he had expected, the suspicious couple returned. While the owner held Kellerman at bay with a stout whisky bottle, his wife called the cops...
...rest of the game a stout Adams defense held the highly favored Elephants in check. Guard Bob Picard and line backer Captain Gus Vlahos held up the center of the Gold Coast line, while quarterback Jack King and Hal Levy stood out in the secondary...
...support swathed his injured spine, holding his neck and back rigid. His weight had dropped from 111 to 90 pounds. His legs and one hand seemed so paralyzed that he could scarcely move. He was a pitiful sight as he hobbled along, supported by his faithful wife and a stout cane. Surprised as he was at the request, the gentle Abbé Louis Desprez, pastor of Chaumont, readily agreed to let Gilbert join the annual pilgrimage to Lourdes in search of a cure...