Word: stoutness
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...brooding appearance of monolithic Communist strength (effective especially in Western Europe), the vision that sent stout old Konrad Adenauer home from Moscow last year with a we-must-do-business-with-them resignation, was more illusory than anyone had guessed...
...team of seven educators hired by the Nevada legislature to investigate the University of Nevada's high-handed President Minard Stout, whose attempt to have a professor fired for protesting against the lowering of admission requirements resulted in the resignation of six others (TIME, June 15, 1953), finally handed down its verdict. "A state university," said the committee, "is neither an army nor a factory; its president is neither a general nor a businessman. The lack of respect for the faculty under the present administration has not only impaired faculty morale and effectiveness, but has damaged the national reputation...
...Washington, Adenauer's speech caused scarcely a ripple. As U.S. official dom saw it, the Chancellor had simply restated some harmless truisms about U.S.-European relations. Some European diplomats, however, were bewildered by the speech, felt that Adenauer was altering his own stout stand against a foreign policy of neutralism, a policy he had so long disdained with the comment: "One cannot sit between two chairs...
Conversation (Thurs. 8 :30 p.m., NBC). Detective stories, discussed by Rex Stout, Jacques Barzun, Clifton Fadiman...
Fargo, N. Dak., minutes after Mrs. Garner Halvorson had finished singing "Bless these walls, so firm and stout" in the Plymouth Congregational Church, the plaster fell from the walk and part of the basement ceiling crashed to the floor...