Word: staunched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...obstacle to convictions in antitrust and railroad rebate cases. Recalls Williams: "In 1908, the U.S. Supreme Court analyzed the privilege at some length and concluded that as a human right it was definitely second class . . . The opinion was written by Justice Moody, an extremely able judge and a staunch 'progressive,' appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt, whose Attorney General he had been. Undoubtedly, Justice Moody's views reflected to some extent the indignation of the intellectuals of that day with the invocation of the amendment by corporation officials in antitrust and rebate cases. The opinion continually belittles...
England has not been successfully invaded since William the Conqueror rode over the luckless Saxons nine centuries ago, but the island's invulnerability is about to end. Next month commercial television will invade staunch Britain, surging onto the air waves that have long been the placid domain of the uncommercial, unexciting...
...father lay on his deathbed, he looked up and saw a strange physician hovering over him "I know you're a bum doctor, but you look like Tony Hart," the dying man muttered and closed his eyes in trusting contentment. Ned Harrigan's fans were no less staunch. A copy editor for the New York Telegraph added this personal postscript to a news column on Harrigan: "I'd rather hear Ned Harrigan sing one verse of the Mulligan Guards than Caruso warble his entire repertoire." Harrigan and Hart the merry partners, were the ruling entertainment team...
...Argentina, which must sell beef in order to buy foreign oil, the saying goes that "every time you start a car you kill a cow." President Juan Perón wants foreigners to come in and produce enough oil to supply his country's needs and to staunch the wound that bleeds the economy of some $200 million a year. Perón last April signed the contract with California Standard, subject to legislative approval. Its main provisions were those that in general prevail throughout the world: 1) a 50-50 split of profits between government and company...
Senate Minority Leader William Knowland, in the past a staunch supporter of McCarthy and a frequent foe of Eisenhower's foreign policy, was visibly agitated by the speech. When McCarthy sat down. Bill Knowland stood...