Word: stanch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Armchair strategists wondered if the Chiapas trouble was a feint to draw Government strength from the North, where Almazanismo is stronger. Watchful President Cardenas sent his stanch supporter, General Jesus Gutierrez Casares, down to Chiapas to find out. General Manuel Avila Camacho, who will succeed General Cardenas as President on Dec.1, postponed his scheduled departure for Washington until the revolt spread or dried...
North West Mounted Police (Paramount) is a movie in the grand style-God's own biggest trees and mountains for props and backdrops; stanch courage and lofty aims among the good people; cunning and treachery lurking within the sinister forces; the ominous note of doom finally stifled by the fortitude of noble...
...affair with Kate, an enemy's wife. But though the sergeant vomits at the sight of a whipping or of blood glistening on a bayonet, he spares his readers a like reaction. Romantic neither in the Wordsworth-Shelley nor the Zanuck-Selznick sense, Lamb's tale is stanch and hearty...
...Chicago Defender (82,059),a stanch Republican organ for 35 years until Editor Robert Sengstacke Abbott died last February, declared for Roosevelt...
...editor of the Chicago Tribune, and radio Writer-Producer-Director Blair Walliser. Originally Quill was known as The Crimson Wizard, and in the beginning neither Lee nor Walliser was certain whether their man was a menace or a hero. Last fall it was decided he ought to be a stanch American, and ever since then Walliser has held him on the patriotic line...