Word: sturdiest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Solitary Singer, by Gay Wilson Allen, gave Poet Walt Whitman his sturdiest monument, a huge, perhaps overstuffed life that probably includes every available scrap of information about Walt...
...army officers traditionally like to think of themselves as the true de fenders of constitutional government. A fervent upholder of that tradition is Lieut. General Henrique Teixeira Lott, 61, leader of last week's revolt. In recent months War Minister Lott had emerged as the army's sturdiest opponent of the faction called golpistas-the military and civilian leaders who favor a golpe (coup) to keep middle-roading President-elect Juscelino Kubitschek (TIME, Oct. 17 et ante) from taking office next January...
...side is a 110-ft.-long bar, on the other a cluster of dime-size tables. Behind the bar, on a narrow, chest-high platform, is a line of musicians, cash registers at their toes and microphones at their shoulders. The Metropole, it turns out, is one of the sturdiest Northern outposts of an obsolescent brand of music: Dixieland jazz...
...Publisher Scribner was unduly worried. Retitled The Wind in the Willows, the Book of Toad has proved one of the sturdiest juvenile successes ever known. In Britain alone it has sold 1,338,000 copies; in the U.S. it has never been out of print. Year in year out, it keeps its appeal in literature's most competitive, most unpredictable market. For children, as an editor of juveniles noted recently, "are the most difficult of all readers to write for . . . The editor's real job is to help the writer bridge the chasm between the child...
...many ways the sturdiest of the McGartys, though an adopted one. was Big Rene. At 15, built like a lady wrestler, she already had behind her a notable career of streetwalking, entertaining G.I.s and breaking out of reformatories. Her philosophy of life was simple: "I hate work...