Word: stoutness
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...grubby, working-class suburb of Spandau in the British sector of Berlin stands a huge, rust red castle surrounded by 15 acres of grounds and a stout brick heptagonal wall. This is Spandau Fortress...
...explanation of how he missed the fight: "There was martial law, and anyway the front was 500 miles away" (sometimes he makes it 700 miles). Jannie and Danie became lifelong public enemies. Smuts, who had fought the British, lived to become a British field marshal and one of the stout pillars of the British Commonwealth;* Malan, who never heard a shot fired, is a bitter Anglophobe. Smuts, a great internationalist, twice declared war on Germany in the name of democracy; Malan admired both the Kaiser and the Nazis, publicly announced that he hoped Hitler would win. Both men became Prime...
...Penn State meet, a Philadelphia schoolteacher, 26-year-old Bob Stout, upset the Bronx Turners' favored Edward Scrobe, to take the all-round title and win the No. 1 Olympic berth on the men's team. A fellow member of Stout's Philadelphia club, wiry Housewife Clara Schroth Lomady, 31, won the all-round honors for women for the fourth year, clinched her No. 1 Olympic spot for the second time...
...East Anglia. He knows as well as any Englishman that, in case of war, Britain would be a major target for Russian attack-with or without U.S. bases. The best guess is that Prime Minister Churchill is using the East Anglia issue, as he is several others (e.g. his stout refusal to abandon plans for a .280-caliber rifle, when most of the allies prefer the U.S. .30-caliber), as bargaining points for his business visit to Washington next month...
...brought the resolutions to Dean Sperry," Stout said, "and he suggested that we hold them off for a while. He said there were to be several changes in the school, and we decided to wait until we know in what direction these changes are moving...