Word: staunched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sherrill, the youngest man (39) to be come Bishop of Massachusetts, was elected on the first ballot. The confidence in him proved well-founded. As an administrator he was a model of unruffled efficiency; in coping with complex and incendiary human relations, he never started an unintentional fire. A staunch broad-churchman himself, he bent over back wards to mollify the Anglo-Catholics. He encouraged both laymen and ministers to come to him with their personal problems, and made it a rule (which he still follows) to insure their privacy, by opening his own mail every morning. He avoided church...
Days passed, and still Barcelona s staunch people walked. After one stormy meeting at the city hall, Governor Baeza Alegria announced: "What we need is a civic example from the highest." Out he marched, and boarded a streetcar to set an example for strikebreakers. But he rode alone. Eventually his trolley bumped into a stone barricade, and he gave...
...regulation. The more obedient senate rushed approval of the other two, passed them for house action on the last day of the session. Administration Floor Leader Frank Twitty argued that the bills were aimed at newspapers to "make 'em careful" about printing "wild charges and untruths." But even staunch Talmadgites wavered in the face of the newspaper protests...
Assessment. A social innovator and appealer to the masses. A staunch wartime ally of Franklin Roosevelt, he still likes to say: "I am the best friend the United States ever had in Latin America." A resourceful foe of Communism. A longtime dictator who announced after his election: "This is the fundamental precept of democracy-the people elect and the elected man governs." An opportunist and master politician, the most skillful on the Latin American scene, supremely aware of the meaning of political power and how to use it, perhaps realistic and experienced enough now to refrain from abusing...
...Dirk Bogarde) loses his head and plugs the picture's most likable bobby (Jack Warner). The courage of the unarmed police closing in on the gun-toting killer invites both admiration and suspense. What should most impress U.S. fans, however, is the reaction of London gangland's staunch conservatives: well aware that shooting a bobby simply isn't done, they help the police to hunt down their...