Word: staunched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Judy's papa-in-law (Salvatore Baccaloni) is a staunch Roman Catholic who considers the child she is carrying to be illegitimate because she and Nick were not married in church. "Whatsamatta?" he bellows. "You don' lika da Pope?" Sure enough, after rollicking through the freshest, funniest, most healthily grown-up comedy that Hollywood has produced in years, Judy finds herself entering a maternity ward in her wedding dress...
That career was soon linked, in a way that made political history, to the career of another fast-rising California Republican: Alameda County District Attorney Earl Warren. Old J.R. always had been a staunch backer of young Earl Warren. Warren and Billy first met about the time Herbert Hoover was campaigning against Al Smith in 1928. Warren was struck by the political skill and vigor of the man 17 years his junior. Says Warren: "You had to admire him." The admiration was mutual. Knowland became a leading spirit among the young California Republicans who were later Warren's greatest...
...your Dec. 17 article "The Delinquent Teachers": please add harassed parents to the list of long-suffering chambers of commerce, corporations and tourist bureaus which would like to staunch the flow of booklet-type assignments by teachers. In the elementary grades particularly, these booklets must be liberally laced with pictures to be acceptable. Pupil A must have as many (or more) pictures as pupil B, or pupil A's booklet won't stand a chance of being displayed on the wall...
...Staunch Friends. All told, the examiners found a shortage of $564,000 in Uncle Bill's accounts. Was that all? a director asked Rose. Dramatically, the banker raised his right hand, swore that it was. That night Rose was charged with the federal offense of altering bank records (maximum sentence: $5,000 fine and five years in jail), released on bail...
...little cause for complaint, except where too many commercials studded the movies to pay off their huge costs. Some network executives professed to be unworried; they said that affiliates are showing the big movies on their own time, not during the choice hours pledged to networks. But NBC, staunch champion of "live" television (in part because of its deep involvement in color TV) is frankly fretting...