Word: staunched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other economic techniques and forces that the world's leading capitalist-enterprise republic has to offer? Without a real world economic plan, and faced by a fast-moving Communist economic offensive, the Administration had dissipated its foreign-aid advantage, to the distress of staunch foreign-aid friends in both parties-and to the delight of ancient isolationist enemies in both parties...
Today, the typical alumnus still takes seriously the result of the Yale game, still exhibits staunch Class loyalty, and still has a wonderfully wild time at Reunions (the Class of '31 plans to spend $130,000 on its 25th anniversary affair). He is likely, however, to know less about Harvard's football record than about its policy in regard to "Communist" Faculty members, to work actively on the schools or scholarship committee of his local Club, to consider just what educational principles he is buying when he writes a check to his Class Fund, and to stray from the Hasty...
William Faulkner has called Henry James "one of the nicest old ladies I ever knew." But allowing for all that was overly fastidious, snobbish and unworldly about him, the James who emerges from the autobiography looks much more like a staunch culture hero. More than any other 19th century U.S. literary figure, with the possible exception of Poe, he pioneered the idea that the art of fiction was not peripheral and frivolous, but central and serious. Master of an elegantly involuted style which Critic Cyril Connolly has dubbed the "Mandarin," James sometimes carried it to the point of "euphonious nothings...
...Staunch supporters of Stevenson claim he was misunderstood on the West Coast. If so, he has not yet corrected the misunderstanding. Last Sunday, reporters on Meet the Press questioned Stevenson sharply on his civil rights' platform. He analyzed each question semantically, refused to commit himself, and indignantly asked if it were necessary for the Democratic Party to go on record in favor of law enforcement. Stevenson further reasoned that since the Democrats had a good civil rights platform in 1952, they would probably have a good one again this year. At no time did the Governor speak with conviction...
...School dean also defended the right of teachers and professors to come to their own decisions without fear of reprisal from their superiors. He emphasized that there are "both staunch defenders along with a growing respect for academic freedom in America today...