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...Sicily was running out. After the Americans and Canadians had turned the Axis flank back upon Mt. Etna, the Allies struck for the kill. To his Britons, attacking at Catania, General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery said: "We will now drive the Germans from Sicily. Into the battle with a stout heart. Good luck...
...Towns: A Close-Up was produced at the behest of Britain's ultrarespectable National Federation of Women's Institutes. The British Medical Journal calls it "horrifying" and warns readers that they need "stout stomachs...
Aged cars and outworn farm machinery, long parked on flat acres to make them unhealthy for landing enemy aircraft, had been removed for salvage. Stout wires hung alongside broad highways for the same purpose had disappeared. Plate glass was replacing boarded-up shop windows. The Great Western Railway had restored 510 station names erased during the invasion scare. Trams, busses, subways and autos were removing some shades from their lights. Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard called for abolition of the blackout...
...gives its wearer better protection against burns and concussion injuries from exploding shells and depth charges in the water. Stowed in the jacket are several new gadgets to aid rescue: a yellow cap (to make its wearer more conspicuous), an electric lamp, a length of rope, a pair of stout loops for rescuers to grab. Another new item of Canadian lifeboat equipment is a supply of heavy socks impregnated with vaseline, to protect sailors from "immersion foot," a circulatory disorder that often leads to gangrene...
...large, muscular hand, with hard skin, short, broad fingers, oval palm and few deep crease-lines indicates a simple, elementary type of person. He has a broad, rather stout body, a quiet, steady, good-natured temperament, rather slow intelligence, is good at sports and physical labor but tends toward high blood pressure and related physical ills...