Word: staunched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was much conversation about current events, including politics, in the Case household. The Rev. Case was a staunch Republican-so staunch that he canceled his subscription to the New York Times when it endorsed Woodrow Wilson for President...
...FAIR DEALING NEW YORK POST, staunch supporter of both the Truman-Acheson foreign policy and the British Labor Party...
Word from Portugal. Gruff, heavy-spending Achille Lauro, multimillionaire owner of a huge merchant shipping fleet, staunch friend of the late Benito Mussolini and now the popular mayor of Naples, was the party's nominal head and principal bankroller (about $3,000,000 in contributions). Ex-Professor (of law) Alfredo Covelli, an expert parliamentarian and a good organizer, was secretary-general and real leader of the Monarchists...
...stage last week, the President got some support from the three Democratic Senators on the Mundt committee, none at all from the four members of his own party. Illinois' Dirksen, who was making mellifluous pro-Eisenhower noises a few months ago, is now revealed as McCarthy's staunch supporter on the committee: Idaho's Dworshak, who was publicly insulted by McCarthy a few weeks ago, has masticated his pride and does what Dirksen suggests; Michigan's Freshman Senator Potter seems adrift; Chairman Mundt, trying painfully to be impartial, has won himself a new name-The Tormented...
Refuting the views of former President Conant, Griswold agreed with the principle of universal military training but asserted that "despite the approach of manhood, boys of eighteen are not men." Conant has always been a staunch advocate of "a universal military service law requiring every able-bodied young man to enter the armed forces at eighteen or on graduation from high school...