Word: stouts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...having its worst January ever recorded. In Dallas the temperature hit 12° and the flow of natural gas in one of the nation's petroleum-richest states was curtailed to heavy industrial users. High winds aggravated the cold. Texans say they use logging chains fastened to stout posts as wind gauges-and this month the chains have been flying flat...
...play this game, but to play it entertainingly requires Amis' sure historical anchor and free-floating imagination. He sets young Hubert's struggle to stay unmutilated against a background of intriguing conjectures and sly jokes. Europe is ruled directly from the Vatican (Pope John XXIV is a stout-swilling Englishman given to reminding his visitors that "we are the Holy Father"). Plague and cholera still ravage its citizens because ecclesiastical authorities have hamstrung medicine and banned science altogether. Jean-Paul Sartre is a French Jesuit. Children read books like St. Lemuel's Travels and "a collection...
...Stout: Chickens eat too, you know. They get hungry...
...Stout: Don't worry, the conductor will do it; he knows...
Allen, 53, a stout, weathered native of Anderson, S.C., knows what he is talking about. In 15 years as an organizer, first for the Textile Workers Union of America, now for the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, he has been beaten up by goon squads, harassed by police and blacklisted by scores of employers. More than once he has stared down the muzzle of a gun. He has felt the force of community as well as employer hostility. Says he: "I've been in campaigns where everyone's against me -the newspapers, the bankers, the politicians...