Word: staunch
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Despite all of the objections that have been raised against him, Kung has remained a staunch defender of Christianity. The Church, however, does not think much of his approach. The Vatican's Holy Office has declared Kung a heretic and has forbidden him from teaching Catholic theology, ostensibly for his questioning of the infallibility of the Church. Indeed, in Does God Exist? Kung questions and then denounces the Holy Office, the Index of Forbidden Books, the Immaculate Conception, papal infallibility, and Paul VI's condemnation of birth control and homosexuality. He belongs to the liberal Catholic tradition that Plus...
...control over both the Cabinet and the army (see box). That double duty made the Soviet-trained World War II veteran the second most powerful man in the government after Party Boss Stanislaw Kania. Jaruzelski, who has a reputation as a tough military professional as well as a staunch party loyalist, wasted no time in taking command. His predecessor had hardly cleaned out his desk when the general sacked two Deputy Premiers and five of 40 Cabinet ministers, many of whom were holdovers from the regime of deposed Party Boss Edward Gierek...
...turreted, Norman-style abbey in Ulster's County Armagh one evening last week, Sir Norman Stronge, 86, and his son James, 48, had just retired to the library after dinner. The baronet, once speaker of the Northern Ireland Parliament and a former head of the Black Order (a staunch Protestant group), was relaxing in his ancestral home when suddenly the great wooden doors of the 18th century castle were blasted open by a violent explosion. Through the breach burst eight gunmen. The masked and heavily armed terrorists shot the victims through their heads, set off incendiary bombs that burned...
...even have a chance to present the Pakistani ruler with the official U.S. gift. While Brzezinski clowned and traded quips with the press, Christopher, whose boss, Cyrus Vance, was Brzezinski's bitterest bureaucratic foe, patiently studied his briefing books. Not once did he betray his annoyance. Staunch discretion and a willingness to let others take credit have been the building blocks of Christopher's career. Those qualities, say admirers, have made him an ideal chief negotiator for the Iranian hostage situation. Quiet and imperturbably dogged, he is the master of thankless tasks...
Novelist John Marquand called him the third best editor he had ever known, after George Horace Lorimer and Maxwell Perkins. William Faulkner, Rebecca West, Willa Cather and other major writers found him a staunch and generous companion. Marc Connelly and William Saroyan phoned him when they needed money. One of the few dissenters was Evelyn Waugh, who called him, with characteristic bile, "an emaciated Jew lately promoted within the Hearst organization from editing a weekly paper devoted to commercial chemistry...