Word: stoutly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Yale has to be a heavy favorite in the Bowl. Brian Dowling and a stout defense have staked the Elis to the nation's longest winning streak--13 games--and Dartmouth was unimpressive here last week...
...Stout Reeds. In the swamp of conflicting motives and interpretations surrounding talk of a bombing pause, there were a few seemingly stout reeds. The obvious Russian interest alone was rea son for optimism. So, on the other side, was the U.S. gesture of returning 14 captured North Vietnamese sailors, followed by an unusual South Vietnamese pledge to free 140 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese prisoners in time for National...
...male au dience-literally all eyes-ogling a beauteous young thing in the front row of the grand tier. A review on Polish philosophy featured a huge bellows all but blowing people off the street with an endless stream of wind. For two books about Republicanism, there was a stout, complacent elephant in morning coat. The review of John Hersey's Algiers Motel Incident produced a long-beaked crane in judicial robes that was as bitterly mocking an image as any that Hersey could hope to evoke...
...ascetic Hanoi heroes in the mold of Ho Chi Minh will be surprised by Mai Van Bo, the round-faced scholar who represents North Viet Nam in France. In his years as Hanoi's best-known envoy to the West, Bo has grown grey, stylish and somewhat stout on the haute cuisine of hostesses delighted by his foxy charm and affable wit. Hanoi watchers are convinced that Bo is kept in the know by his government. Three weeks ago, his henchmen were already murmuring that "we are prepared to accept Paris, if the U.S. will...
Just don't say that to. the Scots, who invented the game almost 500 years ago. Or to the Canadians, who have made it their No. 1 participant sport, with 750,000 players spread across the country. In the old days, stout Scottish farmers slid their rough-hewn stones across the frozen lochs, nipping liberally on the "whisky punch," long a part of curling tradition as "the usual drink in order to encourage the growth of barley." The game was carried to Canada in the mid-1700s by Scottish soldiers who melted cannon balls into 60-lb. "irons...