Word: staunched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strong liberals, a conservative, and a staunch supporter of "The Vital Center" will open the fifth year of Law School Forums tonight with a discussion of "The Future of the American Liberal...
...months ago, Editor Gunn did it again. Over a dispatch from Korea, the Standard headlined: PEASANTS OUTCLASS THE MIGHTY U.S.A. Canada-born Lord Beaverbrook, who considers himself a staunch friend of the U.S., was furious, especially when the headline was quoted in the U.S. press as an instance of British ill will. The subeditor who wrote the headline was fired and the Beaver scorched Gunn for good measure. Gunn stood firm, argued that the headline was "no more than a quotation" (but not an exact one) from the story under it by Chicago Daily News Correspondent Keyes Beech...
...book will make few happy except for the staunch supporters of the Father; to most other Roman Catholics it will probably appear smug and complacent...
Died. Warwick Deeping, 73, British author of some 60 sentimental novels (Sorrell and Son, Roper's Row); in Weybridge, England. A staunch believer in the simple life ("I ceased to have any use for the pretty-pretty, or for literary cliques"), Author Deeping was a medical student in his early days, soon became "infected with the medievalism of the romantic school," gave up doctoring to spend his life writing happily of handsome heroes and virtuous heroines...
...authorities said that Covella was a staunch Fascist who had once been sentenced to death by an Allied court; because of his youth, the sentence was commuted to 30 years. He had recently been released under a new Italian amnesty. Josephine Baker, 43, who holds the French Medal of Resistance for having helped Free French intelligence service during the war, hastily explained to the local police boss: "Believe me, sir, I thought Giovinezza was the title of a student song. I never thought he was a conspirator...