Word: stoutness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early fugitive over the Swedish border was General Carl Johan Erichsen, chief of the 1st Norwegian Division, victimized, he insisted, by false orders to his troops to surrender. Major Hoch Nielsen, commandant of the key fortress at Kongsvinger, was deposed by his men when he failed to order stout resistance. A band of 135 Finnish war veterans-volunteer Swedes and Finns as well as Norwegians-stood a desperate six-hour siege. They manned even an old muzzle-loading cannon, which recoiled 18 feet and had to be hauled back into place after every shot. Nazi shock troopers finally blasted them...
Lyford refused to comment further on the part he expects to play in the venture beyond modestly comparing himself to the "stout-hearted salmon which fights its way upstream." Smiling as if at some secret pleasantry, he declined to elucidate this statement...
...Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes had overshadowed all the world's lotteries. Thanks to its smart publicity men, Jack O'Sheehan and Jim O'Farrell, it brought more fame to Ireland than Guinness' Stout. The Sweeps' huge Drum (ticket-mixing machine) standing in Dublin's Plaza Hall became Eire's No. 1 sightseeing attraction for tourists. The Draw, held thrice a year (on the Grand National, Derby and Cesarewitch)-with Eire's prettiest nurses picking tickets out of the Drum's 24 portholes-was a national shindig. Irish hospitals were run as though...
Benjamin F. Wright, Jr., associate professor of Government; George C. Homans, Instructor in Sociology; Kenneth P. Kempton, lecturer on English; Frederick R. McCreary, preceptor in English Composition; and George L. Stout, head of the department of Conservation. Fogg Art Museum...
...Brownsville. Tex.), which for seven years had not had a passenger fatality, had just been awarded a certificate of Special Commendation by the National Safety Council when a Braniff plane crashed with a dead engine near Oklahoma City, killing seven passengers and a stewardess. A few days later, when stout, middle-aged Tom E. Braniff, president of the line, was receiving the certificate in Manhattan's Pennsylvania Hotel. CAA inspectors were probing through the blackened wreckage of the crash. The year ended in far less embarrassing fashion for Braniff. Last week Braniff Airways offered the public 150,000 shares...