Word: staunched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those who live in places where news of Harvard must filter through certain newspapers and columnists, may be expecting another, less pride-provoking change. It has been described in many ways, some unprintable, but the Boston Record summed it up recently when it said, "Harvard is no longer the staunch supporter of the best American traditions it used to be." That Harvard has grown too radical for its traditions is a grave charge, one which every alumnus should want to track down for himself...
After the council's announcement, the protests grew even louder. F. Champion Ward, dean of the college and a staunch defender of the Hutchins degree, sent in his resignation (Kimpton turned it down). All nine members of the faculty policy committee, as well as the chairmen of eleven departments, begged the chancellor to reconsider the council's action, "taken after . . . consideration too brief for so grave a matter." The heads of all student organizations also protested, then summoned a student rally. All in all, it was like old times at Chicago-but with the revolution going the other...
...course, Youngdahl stands to be roundly denounced for reminding Senators that scapegoats also have Constitutional rights. The people who assumed Lattimore guilty from the moment he was accused will say Youngdahl, a staunch Republican, has sold out to pro-Communists. But Youngdahl can weather these attacks with a clear conscience. In a time of crisis, he has proven that the judiciary is still the best guardian of Constitutional liberties...
...meet a brilliant young Frenchman, Guy de Passy. John is puzzled by the fellow, Robert not. "It is this manner of the great world about him that astonishes and charms you," he says to John. "I think he rates us lowly . . . myself discontented and half a monk; you a staunch simpleton . . . I would say he is one of those people who may perish of their own cleverness...
Steady Job Without Pay. Charles Dawes's bedrock integrity never led him into a silly contempt for money. In 1880, when his father was running for Congress, young Charley, 15, startled his staunch Republican family by parading past their Marietta, Ohio home tootling a flute in the opposition band. It was, he explained airil when he got home, a purely professional appearance for which he had received one silver dollar...