Word: stanch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Louis Charles Rabaut, 74, pro-labor Democratic Congressman from Michigan's 14th District (Greater Detroit), a stanch Roman Catholic whose shining achievement in 13 pale terms in the House was the 1954 legislation inserting the words "under God" into the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance; of a heart attack; in Hamtramck, Mich...
...form a coalition government after his Christian Democrats lost their Bundestag majority in West Germany's September election, Adenauer had to stanch a revolt in his own party and stretch its program to the snapping point. All this took 80 hours of wrangling with Erich Mende's cocky minority Free Democratic Party, which is primarily a conservative businessmen's party but also harbors such ill-assorted bedfellows as former Nazis and militant socialists. Wrathfully, Adenauer signed an agreement to step down by the end of 1963, when he will have ruled West Germany for twelve straight years...
...News. Season after season, the Southwest Conference is one of the roughest, toughest leagues in the U.S. This season it is tougher than ever. Lines are brawny and deep, defenses are stanch and sound. But in the offense-minded Southwest Conference, the big news is a corps of fleet-footed backs who can run over and around the most dogged linebacker, butt heads with the best in the country. Among them: > Baylor's bull-necked Ronnie Bull (6 ft., 198 Ibs.), a halfback last season, who was switched to fullback this year to take advantage of his straight-ahead...
...spectacular revolts. In A.D. 40, Trung Trac, whose husband had been beheaded by the Chinese governor, gathered an army of 80,000 Vietnamese to storm the governor's fort and set up her own kingdom, which lasted for two years. One of Trung Trac's army commanders was a stanch female who went into the fray nine months pregnant, gave birth on the battlefield, then rose to lead her troops in a futile last assault against the avenging Chinese. When the Chinese withdrew in 939, the Annamese turned conquerors in their turn. For nearly a thousand years, the Annamese armies...
...free world has a leader again," exulted Cologne's Neue Rhein Zeitung-and it didn't mean Adenauer. Frankfurter Allgemeine lauded Kennedy's Cabinet picking as "a masterpiece of natural political talent." Even Kennedy's firm demand that Bonn hike its contribution to help stanch the U.S. gold drain was accepted with equanimity. Bonn's earlier proposal of help, admitted the Frankfurter Rundschau, had really been "an insignificant concession...