Word: stoutness
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...nicest ways to get awa> from it all is to go climb a tree-every child knows that. Seen from a stout limb and framed in shade, the world seems a safer and more interesting place. But sooner or later the child must come down to earth. In this novel, the hero never comes down, and neither does Italian Author Italo Calvino. He seems to have had great fun dreaming up his fantasy; all he asks of the reader is a suspended intelligence and a taste for the bizarre...
...White Sox stout pitching and tight defense went for naught yesterday. The Dodgers threw away the script (or shouldn't that be mentioned with Chicago in the Series?) and bombed Early Wynn, Dick Donovan and Turk Lown for six runs in the second inning, which offset Kluszewski's third homer, in the bottom of the frame...
...Assisted covertly at first, then openly by imperial troops, the Boxers attacked along the yo-mile line from Peking to Tientsin. They blooded themselves with wholesale massacres of the missionaries in isolated places, and marched on the cities. In Tientsin a young U.S. mining engineer named Herbert Hoover built stout barricades of wool, silk, sacks of peanuts and whatever other merchandise lay at hand, and the foreigners withstood the assault. The real fight was at Peking, the Imperial City...
...Administration, President Eisenhower was winning one of the greatest personal ovations ever given by Europeans. In Great Britain the outpouring was in a large sense a heartwarming welcome to an old, tried friend. In West Germany the turnout was for a onetime conqueror who had become a stout ally, boosted German pride and self-respect, assured U.S. support, guaranteed that Germany's new-found democratic freedom would sot be traded off in big-power parleys. In France this week new tumults awaited Dwight Eisenhower, not only as the liberator of 1944 but as a statesman willing to help France...
...Borg's one-day motor trip to receive an honorary degree at a Swedish university, and through old age's dreams of youth and death. Between self-revealing dream sequences, Borg is busy talking to his bitterly perceptive daughter-in-law (Ingrid Thulin), arguing and making-up with his stout-hearted housekeeper (Julan Kindahl), and experiencing three impossibly youthful hitch-hikers and an actress-and-husband couple whom he has picked up on the road to the university...