Word: staunched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...open. Old Guard Owen Brewster, 67. who has been angling unsuccessfully for a federal job since 1952, was a possibility-an idea that brought shudders to liberal Republicans. Other possibilities: ex-Governor Horace A. Hildreth, 53, now U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan; University of Maine President Arthur Hauck, 63, a staunch Eisenhower supporter; and Congressman Clifford Mclntire, the only Republican Representative from Maine to be re-elected by a comfortable margin this year (one was defeated, one squeaked through). Whoever gets the nomination will probably have to go up against popular Democratic Governor Edmund S. Muskie, 42, who won re-election...
Judgment Day. But the press also gave Lincoln staunch supporters, e.g., the Chicago Tribune and the Cincinnati Daily Commercial, and some memorable reporting, such as the Commercial's description of the elation in Chicago at Lincoln's first nomination: "The city was wild with delight. The 'Old Abe' men formed processions and bore rails through the streets. Torrents of liquor were poured down the hoarse throats of the multitude. A hundred guns were fired from the top of Tremont House...
...named Adolf Hitler, who wore a trench coat and nervously slapped his boots with a dog whip. A goggle-eyed witness of the spectacular rise of Hitler, Himmler & Co. was the butcher's stocky son, Franz Josef. Catching his son distributing Nazi propaganda one day, Butcher Strauss, a staunch Catholic, gave the boy a thrashing right there in the Schellingstrasse. Said Franz Josef Strauss, recalling the incident recently: "That was my first experience in politics. I've never been able to get away from politics since...
...provoking speeches on almost every aspect of contemporary Canadian life (TIME, Oct. 6, 1952). He has been a champion of civil liberties, a critic of Anglophiles who would keep Canada more dependent on Britain ("They want us to ape the English in everything from accent to aristocracy"), and a staunch friend of the U.S. (he once accused Canada's External Affairs Chief Lester Pearson of "adolescence" for carping about U.S. foreign policy). Protestant Smith has strong backing in Roman Catholic Quebec because of his support of religious teaching in schools and the fact that he speaks French...
...elections next month, a myriad of little grouches and grievances and impressions form an important part of the political picture. This is particularly true when an incumbent governor such as Leo Hoegh is seeking reelection. National, state and local issues intertwine and conflict and complicate one another (last week staunch Eisenhower Republican Hoegh. convinced that Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson is a local political liability, kept far away when Benson visited Iowa). At times, issues that logically should help the candidate are fatal. In some cases a whole collection of political anthills pile together to form a mountain...