Word: stanched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...serious is the hemorrhaging of Brazil's wasted generation that nothing but an all-out emergency program could possibly stanch it. As it is, the government spends only $38 million a year on children's services-and even that is poorly distributed. Only 11.8% of all Brazil's cities and towns receive any aid at all for needy children. There is only one government or private-care agency for every 10,000 needy or abandoned children. Only 10% of these institutions are located in the poverty-stricken northeast, where nearly one-half of the country...
...make the world safe for democracy. He wrote a book about Watergate, too, but take away the cloak-and-dagger and all you get is self-service (it's cheaper that way). Just like Magruder and Dean, the two bright young boys who did all they could to stanch the tide just as soon as there wasn't a wave to ride anymore...
Brave Efforts. Last year Italy's hard-pressed Guardia di Finanza (financial police) made brave efforts to stanch the flow of capital. In the first eight months of 1976 more than $11 million in contraband currency was seized, and a further $496 million in illegal financial deals was uncovered. Far more had undoubtedly slipped past the understaffed Guardia. As one of its officers admitted last week, "We would have to mobilize the whole Italian army if we wanted to search every person and car that crossed our frontiers. Last year almost 40 million people crossed into Italy...
...campaign manager. Thus, when the Californian's presidential hopes took a nosedive last month, Gambler Sears was forced to try to salvage the situation. By persuading Reagan to announce that Pennsylvania Senator Richard Schweiker was his choice as running mate, Sears confused the Republican delegate picture sufficiently to stanch the flow of support to Ford and keep Reagan alive. But the move-by outraging some conservatives-may also have guaranteed Ford's nomination. Whether Sears' greatest gamble was shrewd or foolhardy will not be entirely clear until after the Republican presidential nominee is selected next week...
...fanny to stanch the flow Dog was snarlin' so I backed off slow Right into the arms of a slinky Arab-esque She planted a wet one on me you wouldn't see in burlesque...