Word: staunch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Touching on the recent Wisconsin presidential primary, in which Gov. George Wallace of Alabama, a staunch segregationist, amassed 260,000 votes, the Senator said he felt encouraged, rather than dismayed. The Wisconsin voters handed down a clear mandate for the present bill by voting three to one in favor of candidates who advocate civil rights, he said...
...last decade have averaged nearly $850 million each year, and Johnson knows that something like that amount is sure to be cut this year, especially in view of the fall elections. But the bill is passed each year, even though it has become something of a political whipping boy. Staunch Administration stands have several times kept cuts to a minimum. In 1961 President Kennedy asked for $4.8 billion and received $4.4 billion plus the new administrative organization he proposed. He lost only on his controversial suggestion for treasury borrowing authority. Johnson, who has much more influence in Congress now than...
William R. Hearst Jr., editor in chief of the Hearstpapers, likes to introduce National Editor Frank R. Conniff as "the house Democrat." This at once pays affectionate tribute to the staunch Republicanism of the Hearstpapers, to Conniff's equally unsubornable allegiance to the other party, and to the indulgence of Bill Hearst himself. Last week Democrat Conniff, 49, reached for a House more sizable than Hearst's. He accepted the Democratic nomination as candidate for Congress from a suburban Westchester district...
Nicolaus emphasized that there were no political criteria for choosing among the applicants. "We welcome students of any political philosophy," he said. "We are particularly anxious to have some staunch conservatives come along...
Survival of the Fittest. Even as staunch an admirer as Coleridge found Darwin's poetry "nauseating." Nevertheless, The Botanic Garden, a scientific treatise in rhymed couplets, was a bestseller during his lifetime, and its descriptive lines were vastly admired by many of his contemporaries...