Word: staunch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, but many suspect this merely conceals an inclination to affiliate with a Communist-backed rival, the World Federation of Trade Unions. Mboya's union headquarters in Nairobi was built with $35,000 contributed by U.S. unions, and Mboya himself is a staunch supporter of I.C.F.T.U. as well as chairman of its union organization in East, Central and Southern Africa...
...happy to have the privilege of attending Harvard at a time when it has such staunch defenders of liberalism as Professors Schlesinger and Galbraith...
...Alpine side, since De Gaulle came to power, Italy has become a staunch backer of France's policy in Algeria. On the Rhine, Adenauer's Germany has forged new links with its old enemy. And last week Spanish officials in Paris were humming contentedly about a new "era of good feeling...
Tomorrow night, Williams, a staunch supporter of Governor Robert Meyner for the 1960 Presidential nomination, will attend a dinner with backers of other Democratic hopefuls. Given by John M. Bullitt '43, Master of Quincy House, the dinner will include in its guest list Councillor Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29, and Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government...
...Catholics who had slipped from orthodoxy objected "because of religious beliefs" to both legalized abortion and extra-marital intercourse--a surprisingly large percentage considering that a much smaller fraction of the students polled would follow suit. An even more surprising feature of this question is that some of the staunch Catholics (five in all) failed to object to certain of the practices listed in question 41, all of which are morally objectionable in the eyes of the Church. Three, in particular, think pre-marital intercourse justifiable...