Word: stanch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chile, only other American republic which has not broken relations with the Axis, indicated that Lawyer Ernesto Barros Jarpa would become Foreign Minister. With Barros, a stanch supporter of the U.S., in the Foreign Office, Chile felt that Washington would understand if she, too, thought things over a while longer...
Around Bismarck, whence he came, Bill Langer has a stanch following of voters who feel that he is just as good as the next man. They twice elected him Governor. When he was tried on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the Federal Government in administering relief, one jury convicted him, another disagreed, a third set him free. But when his people sent him to the Senate last year, a group of North Dakota citizens protested...
...immediate treatment of bleeding, asphyxia, poisoning. Serious bleeding may cause death in five or six minutes. Teachers first show students the various pressure points on the body where serious bleeding can be stopped, later teach them how to make tourniquets to stanch hemorrhage. For asphyxia and drowning, students are taught artificial respiration. For poisoning, they are given one good old rule of thumb: dilute the contents of the stomach at once by filling the victim with water. Then stick your finger down his throat till he throws...
...Patrick Joseph Henry Hannon, industrialist, M.P., did give TIME a hurried interview but TIME did not garble it. A stanch Roman Catholic, Sir Patrick disclosed that he cooled off on the Oxford Group when he found that Roman Catholic representatives were not included as signatories to a Group press manifesto concerning "religious freedom." Sir Patrick added that on investigating Group claims to have forestalled work stoppages in the Midlands, he had found they had actually been avoided by "sordid means" -he used the phrase with a twinkle in his eye-"like better pay and better hours...
...loaded news columns, the Colonel invokes the tradition of personal journalism that made the Tribune great under his famed grandfather Joseph Medill, Lincoln's stanch backer and crony ("Take your Goddamned feet off my desk, Abe") and one of the Civil War's fieriest propagandists. Old Medill summed up his news technique in a classic story in 1857 headed A BRUTE. One James Wheeler was fined $5 for maltreating his wife. The Tribune story concluded: "A few months' experience in breaking stones in the Bridewell would do this Wheeler a 'power of good...