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Back of the steel the North Carolina's crew was grinning, shaking hands, cheering. For that night a ship that had been an impersonal, vastly complicated structure of machines had come to life. She was real, stout, nervy. She was the kind of person her oldtimers had known before, that her recruits (more than a third of enlisted strength) would soon love with the fierce ship loyalty of navy men. She could take it, and deliver...
...Tough, stout-hearted Dutch, Belgians, Luxemburgers! Tormented, mishandled, shamefully castaway peoples of Yugoslavia! Glorious Greece, now subjected to the crowning insult of rule by the Italian jackanapes! Yield not an inch. Keep your souls clean from all contact with the Nazis. Make them feel, even in their hour of brutish triumph, that they are the moral outcasts of mankind. Help is coming. Mighty forces are arming in your behalf. Have faith. Have hope. Deliverance is sure...
...export version (British Kittihawk). Although P-40s (British Tomahawks) are still giving a stout account of themselves in battle with Messerschmitt logs over Britain's Egyptian and Far Eastern fronts, the Kittihawk is a long jump ahead. It is slicker and leaner than the Tomahawks. From its wings bristle six .50-caliber machine guns. It has better armor for pilots and, best of all, it has a lot more speed-reputedly a top of 380-390 m.p.h...
Cleveland's Public Auditorium was honeycombed with booths where researchers set up colorful exhibits and, like barkers at a county fair, reached out and grabbed passersby. None of the medical exhibits was startlingly new; but doctors blessed with stout feet and inquisitive minds found lots to look...
...British had let them march down carrying their weapons: a tribute to the stout hearts which even the enemy knew they had shown...