Word: staunched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that if they were not put off by what they regard as his aloof manner. In his appearances before Congress, he is gracious, urbane and polite-perhaps over-polite. But his explanations of foreign programs often carry a trace of faint weariness that explanations should be needed. Worse, even staunch Democrats were dismayed by his espousal of Alger Hiss; and his explanation of what he regarded as the moral niceties of the question merely embarrassed them more. In their eyes, he had thus become a political liability...
...been propped up and rotting away in a meadow not far from salt water. But lean, grizzle-bearded Captain Joshua Slocum desperately wanted the 36-footer, and he got her. By the time he had put in a year's work rebuilding the Spray into a staunch, well-found craft, he was ready to put to sea. One spring day in 1895, with only Slocum aboard, the Spray sailed out of Boston harbor on what turned out to be a 46,000-mile voyage. At 51, Joshua Slocum was doing what he had wanted to do since...
That seemed as far as the matter was going to go until the Senators began to pick up their papers as though to ad journ. Then Alabama's long-jawed Demo crat Lister Hill, staunch supporter of the Administration on foreign policy, spoke up like a desperate prompter in the wings...
Next came the query, "Would you marry a girl who you knew was not a virgin?" A staunch 65 per cent said yes, only eight percent said no while 27 percent were on the fence...
...federal tax on oleomargarine (by dairy state Senators); civil rights (by the Dixiecrats); a revised D.P. bill (by Nevada's one-man roadblock, Pat McCarran). In both Houses one of the warmest debates would come over taxes and the new budget, which was giving concern even to some staunch Administration Democrats. Majority Leader Scott Lucas hopefully predicted a cut of $1 billion in foreign aid and $2 billion in military spending. Illinois' rising Freshman Senator Paul Douglas, a Fair Dealer, wanted to trim the budget by $4.5 billion...