Word: stanched
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...best friend (Edward Arnold), a "stanch Republican" who is a War Department big shot, refuses to save her son from the draft...
Already in the hopper was another bill, by Florida's stanch New Deal Senator Claude Pepper, to outlaw poll taxes altogether...
...Canadian dailies, both normally stanch supporters of the Mackenzie King Government, were fined last fortnight. It was the first major crackdown for violation of Canada's Defense Regulations...
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...
...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...