Word: stanching
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...Leopoldo Melo, head of the Argentine delegation, slouched in a wicker chair, gesturing with small, delicate hands to emphasize his soft-voiced Spanish sentences. Behind him as interpreter stood handsome, black-haired, flashing-eyed Luis Mariano Zuberbuhler, secretary of the delegation. No newcomer to Pan-American conferences, a stanch U. S. friend is scholarly Buenos Aires Lawyer Melo, onetime Radical Antiper-sonalista (conservative) Deputy & Senator, onetime Minister of Interior. At the Panama meeting last autumn he went over the head of Foreign Minister Jose M. Cantilo, appealed directly to President Roberto M. Ortiz, threatened to resign unless Argentina approved...
Last week the sullen heralds of total war chattered in British skies, but many a British scientist, true to a long and stanch tradition, went calmly on with his researches in "pure" or fundamental science.* One of the purest of pure sciences is the approach to absolute zero, the nadir of cold. Absolute zero is the point at which all random motions of material particles, due to heat energy, are completely stilled. It is calculated at 273.13° below zero on the centigrade scale, and it can be written as simply 0°K., meaning zero on the Kelvin...
Ford is not alone in this category either. I am firmly convinced that there are thousands of big men in this country who are just as true to their ideals and just as stanch in their support of democracy and justice, and I say that the time has not yet come when their ability to produce has been, or can be, equaled...
When ex-Corporal Mussolini marched on Rome in 1922, Marshal Badoglio, stanch monarchist, begged for a battalion of Royal Carabinieri to "sweep away these Black Shirt upstarts." He openly opposed the Ethiopian adventure until it became his duty to finish it. Although his heart may not be in this war, he is too good a soldier not to put his best brains and best effort into...
...Traveler, founded in 1825, is Bos ton's biggest afternoon paper (circulation 210,000), but it is not renowned for its editorial vigor. In the normal course of events, a few stanch followers of the Traveler's, editorial page would have nod ded their heads over Joe Toye's diatribe, and that would have been that. But City Editor Horton Edmands, one day last week, found in his mail a letter of protest from the German Consulate in Boston...