Word: stoutly
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They still valued Ploesti enough to put up a stout fight for it. They fought from hastily improvised fortifications and turned their antiaircraft guns on the attackers before Malinovsky's pile driver smashed them. When they fled, they fired the wells and tanks...
...Niland, a stout, calm woman who is "Stumpy" to her four boys, signed the messenger's pad, opened the telegram. It was from Adjutant General Ulio, and it read: "The Secretary of War desires that I tender his deep sympathy to you on the loss of your son Preston...
...tomahto a tomayto, and he speaks with some of the oratorical grandeur of John L. Lewis; with the same effective trick of ranging from a whisper to a sudden roar. In a swift series of 500 campaign speeches, young Bob Bradford last week finished strong even in some stout Irish precincts, where to be a Yankee and a Harvard man is to be twice-damned...
...bald Armenian Colonel General Ivan Bagramian and Colonel General Ivan Chernyakhobsky, a 32-year-old Jewish tank expert who helped to defend Voronezh in 1942, launched thrusts north and south of Vitebsk which bypassed that stout Nazi bastion by 15 to 25 miles. Then they closed the gap behind it, cutting off five German divisions. At week's end Stalin announced that Vitebsk was in Russian hands...
...Weaker Sex. Stranger still was a spate of stories about women snipers fighting for the Germans. Said General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, commander of Allied Ground Forces in France: "There were a number of stout-hearted women snipers who were killed doing their stuff...