Word: staunched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Whelan, the new ambassador, is a staunch Republican, and onetime Republican state committeeman, in a state where Democrats are as rare as Republicans in Alabama. He opposed Langer in the Republican primary for the Senate in 1940, but it proved to be a friendly act: Whelan's candidacy split the anti-Langer vote, and Wild Bill won easily. But why should Harry Truman be interested in such Republican matters? The fact is that unpredictable Bill Langer votes with the Administration more than half the time, and has never been paid...
...Luis Thomen, pinned his country's Order of Juan Pablo Duarte (highest decoration given a foreigner) on Major General Anthony C. ("Nuts") McAuliffe, hero of Bastogne. On hand to get the same medal (his tenth foreign decoration): Major General Harry Vaughan, for "outstanding service to humanity . . . a staunch defender of the lofty ideals of western civilization...
...staunch upholder of Greenwich Village hopes TIME will get President Galo Plaza started in life where he actually started...
...Instead, staunch Critic Smith laid about the field with renewed energy. He had kind words for some-Composer Benjamin Britten, Conductor Sir Malcolm Sargent. But he found the acoustics of the new hall built for the Festival of Britain "harsh" and "unlovely. One felt like rushing out to seek the relative quiet of Waterloo Station." Last week, while Britons raged, he wound up his four-week critical series with a sermon...
Some readers had beaten us to the draw. One fabulous but informed Maharaja had been receiving TIME by air to India, at an annual subscription rate of $585.60. But most subscribers outside continental North America - a staunch little group of 26,000 - waited for their magazines to arrive by ship...