Word: staunched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...large, the Conservative Party (led, for a change, by its young backbenchers) is in favor of permitting commercial TV. The Socialists are strongly opposed. But many a staunch Tory is also for control by BBC, on the principle that too much television in any form is bad for the people. A recent convert to BBC control is Tory Lord Salisbury, who used to boast that he had never seen a TV show and never intended...
...Reds turned out to be no innocents abroad. They were as interested in what they were not shown, and why, as in what they did see. They admired the cleanliness of the people and the orderliness of the queues. But Gregory Kassimatis, onetime Labor Minister, a staunch Liberal, was appalled, after touring two Red showplace factories, by the lack of industrial safeguards to protect the workers. All were conscious of being tailed at all times by security agents. When one tourist asked to pop in on a worker's home, he was told: "The Russian home is a sanctuary...
...State of the Union, Lindsay & Grouse once brightly mated politics and humor; they have been less successful matchmakers with politics and thrills. They have staunch allies in Actress Cornell and an able cast-including Felix Aylmer as the British delegate; they start off with a genuinely promising first act. After that, things tend to halt at times, and at others to go downhill. The play's serious side, too solemn for a suspense yarn, is too superficial for anything else. To keep really alive, the play should have clung like a leech to its corpse...
Boston politico James Michael Curley told a capacity New Lecture Hall audience last night at the Harvard Law School Forum that he was a staunch McCarthy supporter...
...this, moreover, must be viewed in context, the context of a country just emerging from four years of devastation, full of gratitude for its staunch if irascible ally, full of optimism for peace, and full of the ideals for which its soldiers had just fought, among them the proposition that no man is guilty until so proven. Few people remember today that Truman had all he could do to ward off those who would appease Russia at every turn. They do not remember that such obvious moves as the Greek-Turkish Aid program and opposition to Tito's thrust...