Word: stouts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stout six footer, Hua has a thoughtful and serious bearing. The few diplomats who have met him are impressed with his grasp of the issues and his skill in handling complex situations. Although he has had little experience in foreign affairs, Hua, while Acting Premier, was designated to conduct discussions with former President Richard Nixon in Peking last February. During those talks he was careful and cautious, often referring to briefing papers to explain the Chinese position. He confirmed the basic foreign policy guidelines set down by Chou Enlai: China's desire to normalize relations with...
Charlie, a stout, perspiring private cop who works at Logan, said that his job there was "to guard the stewardesses," and he winked. Then more soberly he said that most stewardesses are respectable married women and that "only 25 per cent or so are quote unquote The Stewardesses." Charlie would like to be a steward for Delta, but he said he is not sexy enough...
...pieces or stadia, winter rowing seems to spell misery for those stout-hearted souls who insist on outlasting the ice on the Charles River. "You always think of quitting in the winter," four-year oarswoman Roxanne Malenbaum said, "and I'm not sure why I don't, because I can't tell you I love...
Thesis anxiety or not, if Eric Ambler's fifteen or so books were not so wildly interesting I could have kicked the habit. Agatha Christie, who has all the psychological insight of second year algebra, couldn't have maintained interest like that, and if you've ever tried Rex Stout you'd know after three of four books that Nero Wolfe is really just a fat old fart. Almost every collection of one-author-one-genre books gets repetitive after a while: critics betray this by calling thrillers a "craft" or a pulp writer a "masterful technician," generally revealing that...
BAYH. "We're running a strong third," Bayh shouted incongruously to his supporters after the vote count. The Indiana Senator clearly lost the most in New Hampshire. Before the election, Udall's press secretary Richard Stout saw Bayh and Udall in a similar bind. Said he: "We're both broke, and we know that one or more of us can't last after Massachusetts without a score...