Word: stoutness
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...controlled copper and cobalt riches. As U.S. Under Secretary of State George McGhee conferred patiently in Elisabethville, hoping to convince Tshombe that Katanga must return to the Congo fold, U.N. Acting Secretary-General U Thant published a U.N. report from Leopoldville which charged that Tshombe was beefing up his stout little army with additional white hirelings, had even added more than a dozen airplanes to his tiny air force...
...nation free-trade area. Though negotiations were broken off by France, even his friends concede that Maudling was bored by the long-drawn discussions and dubious about Britain's need to join Europe. Today he is one of the government's leading "Europeans" and a stout proponent of Britain's entry into the Common Market...
...others: VA Pathologist Oscar Auerbach, Columbia University Surgical Pathologist Arthur Purely Stout, and American Cancer Society Statistician Lawrence Garfinkel...
...just plain Sachev-erell-have got more literary linage out of self-exposure, on the basis of less actual literary accomplishment, than any artistic dynasty in history. Osbert. who earlier dealt exhaustively with all his relatives in his autobiography Left Hand, Right Hand!, has now found that its five stout volumes were not enough. Tales My Father Taught Me, the latest entry in this sibling revelry, is an afterpiece entirely devoted to his patrician papa...
...president of Wisconsin's little Lawrence College when he was named Harvard's 24th president in 1953. Pusey has shown, says one professor, "the dedication to Harvard of a saint to his monastery." Deeply religious, Episcopalian Pusey has revamped Harvard's divinity school. A stout defender of academic freedom, he stood up to Joe McCarthy when the Senator tried to pillory Harvard as a "hotbed of Communists." An able fund raiser, he brought off an $82.5 million drive for Harvard College...