Word: stoutly
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...went out to the little courtyard where the gallows stood, a stout wooden frame with several hooks and a stool on which men stood before an SS kick deprived them of their last grip on life...
...Archbishop named an old Navy man, tubby Admiral Petros Voulgaris, Commander in Chief of the Greek Fleet, as the new Premier. In World War I, the Admiral was a stout supporter of the Allies, a follower of the late great Eleutherios Venizelos. In World War II he made his mark by breaking last year's leftist mutiny aboard Greek warships in Alexandria harbor. Then, as now, he had British forces behind him to help keep Greek from fighting Greek...
...Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, it was a crushing defeat. In the by-election in Grey North, Ontario, the Tories this week elected stout, ham-handed Garfield Case to Parliament...
...sheets ("It's too cold for sheets"), the lack of heat ("There's no law you have to keep a school piping hot"), the single dining-study-play room ("I don't think there's a law [against it]"). Even more puzzling was the stout defense of Duncan and his school which the older students, backed by their embarrassed parents...
...Armored retook Saint-Vith, a town of bloody and gallant memory. North of there, the Germans still stood on Belgian soil in a small bend of the border. They were smacked by the famed 1st Infantry, the stout peg which had held down the north shoulder of Rundstedt's salient. The doughboys attacked at 4 a.m. in a heavy snowstorm, without artillery preparation, and gained two miles...