Word: staunch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their combined 68 years in Congress, Johnson and his staunch old ally, Speaker Sam Rayburn, have racked up a thousand political debts. The lOUs are vividly charted on a large wall map of the U.S. in the Austin headquarters of Larry Jones, a former Texas assistant attorney general, who quit his job three months ago to prepare the Johnson-for-President campaign. The map is covered with red pins in every state and cranny of the nation-each one representing a politician or politicians who can be mustered to the Johnson colors when the trumpet blows...
...will not matter." Of all the puppets on the Broadway stage-the psychology-prattlers and so-ciology-spouters, the junkies, the drunks, the rebellious adolescents, the child-eating moms, the vicious generals and sweet-souled "liberals," the organization men who want to "sell out" and the staunch little women who won't, the inarticulate minorities and their articulate champions -of all these, the most significant are the puppets maneuvered by Tennessee Williams. At times they have been stunningly lifelike, and once or twice Puppeteer Williams has put on a rattling good show...
...knock-knock-knock column," promised Robinson at the very outset-whereupon he started spraying his knocks to all fields. Sometimes he dismays even the Post, as when he declared that he might be compelled to support Republican Richard Nixon for President if the Democrats failed to nominate a staunch civil rights candidate...
Born into a nonmusical family (his father is a Westinghouse distributor) of mixed German-Dutch ancestry, Schippers at eight shocked his parents, staunch members of the Bethany (Dutch) Reformed Church, by joining St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Kalamazoo-because it had a good boys' choir. Schippers managed to finish high school when he was 13, moved to Philadelphia's Curtis Institute. After graduation he got a series of pickup jobs that led to Consul (he caught Composer Menotti's attention while coaching singers for the show) and to the Met, which signed...