"She's not as stoutly bred as I'd like to see," said Pletcher, who won the 2007 Belmont with the filly Rags to Riches.
I quivered in my flip-flops when I saw the dual byline (we're having some fall-like weather, but I am stoutly refusing to relinquish my summer shoes), but this puzzle did not come off as impossible to me.
But progress is being stoutly resisted by companies such as Michelin, which (like Parmalat) is quoted but also family-controlled.
Much depends on Domenic Recchia Jr., Coney Island's councilman, who has been skeptical of the city's plan while stoutly defending the interests of landowners, like his friend Mr. Sitt.
"I thought: 'I'm coming here, even if they don't know I am, I like this place, I can think better here,'" she says stoutly.
It is worth getting to the Met if only to see her gather an enemy army's swords, march stoutly to stage right and casually toss them into the wings like so much bathwater.
All the same, few of us have the wit -- or the aristocratic temerity -- to pick a number, like the great hostess and horsewoman Nancy Astor did, and stoutly stick with it, creating havoc as we go along: "I refuse to admit that I am more than 52," she declared, "even if that does make my sons illegitimate".
Baseball, in this view, was a game for stoutly built men proud to be called "sluggers," uncouth players who said things like "I'd rather be lucky than good" and chewed tobacco, and who, unlike barehanded outfielders in cricket, wore leather gloves to catch balls.
