Word: stanch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Filipinos (who constitute 75% of its readers) are its stanch supporters. In a format resembling the Satevepost, it includes a capable foreign-news section, feature articles, political gossip, Washington correspondence...
Rundstedt, the oldest, is also the best. Before the Nazis came to power, he was a stanch royalist, a faithful Hindenburg man. Now he is the Nazis' high priest of strategy. Belittlers of Chief of the High Command Wilhelm Keitel used to say that Keitel was such a coxcomb that he wouldn't even listen to Rundstedt. Rundstedt is easily the most experienced German commander. He alone of the present crop of generals was an Army Corps Chief of Staff in World War I. He will go down in German history as a hero because...
...Nebraska's stanch old World War I isolationist Senator George W. Norris declared himself for war "if necessary...
...question was how many Italians were prepared to defend Harar, and how hard. It was likely that most of the Italians who had been in British Somaliland had fallen back into this area. The Italians would probably put up a stanch fight here because here-and at Cheren in Eritrea-were the last chances for strong stand: before Addis Ababa. If the British could crack the old town of Harar, they could cut the rail line, just north of Harar, from Addis Ababa...
...newspapers, not more than three are controlled by the Germans; the rest are either neutral or pro-Ally. Herbert Moses, the highly respected president of the Brazilian Press Association, and treasurer-director of O Globo, is the son of an American mother and is a stanch friend of England and the U. S. His newspaper reflects this attitude...