Word: staunch
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That idea was given a forceful public statement last month by Professor Yacob Talmon, a leading historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a staunch Zionist. In a letter to the Tel Aviv daily Ha'aretz, Talmon acidly denounced Begin's autonomy idea as "an archaic concept, a trick to shut the Gentile's mouth." Talmon argued that similarly limited autonomy plans had never worked in the past and charged that the government's territorial and settlement policy not only contributed to the corruption of the Israeli people but also violated "the vital Zionist...
...done more to stir doubts than Columbia University Psychologist Herbert Terrace in his work with little Nim (full name: Nim Chimpsky, a play on the name of Linguist Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a staunch proponent of the idea that language ability is biologically unique to humans). The object of Terrace's experiment was to prove Chomsky wrong -to show that creatures other than man could, indeed, conquer syntax and link words into sentences, however simple...
...fogginess makes it easy for staunch conservatives to choose to place their votes elsewhere in the quite extensive array of arch-conservative Republican candidates. Few real issues significantly separate him from his GOP competitors. A January survey of 225 corporation presidents conducted by Dun's Review showed as much support for Bush as for Reagan, Connally and Anderson combined...
...Congress, he has forcefully attacked labor unions and bureaucrats while opposing aid to New York City. So staunch a champion of fiscal responsibility is Kelly that he refused in 1976 to pocket a congressional pay raise and donated the more than $1,000 to churches and the U.S. Treasury. He and his fourth wife, Judy, 28, his former secretary, whom he married in 1978, live relatively frugally, but Kelly managed to spend about $12,000 more for his office account last year than the $290,000 allowed him; he had to get a bank loan to pay back the amount...
...making such decisions in Moscow? Because Brezhnev has been such a staunch supporter of the SALT treaty that he signed with Carter in Vienna last June, there was some ominous speculation that the ailing Soviet leader might now be acting under pressure from younger and more aggressive officials, or even that the long anticipated process of changing Soviet leadership might already be 5 under way. Most Soviet experts discounted such speculation, however. Said one West German Foreign Ministry analyst: "There is no evidence to indicate that Brezhnev has lost 8 control in Moscow." A Western expert in Moscow said: "Remember...