Word: staunched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some U.S. analysts speculate that the marshal may have got the boot because he was too staunch an advocate of arms-control negotiations with the U.S. Ogarkov served as the Soviet Union's chief military representative to the first round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks at a time when the Soviet leadership was convinced of the need to check American advances in weaponry at the negotiating table. Ogarkov is thought to have pushed for the start of talks in Vienna this fall on limiting the arms race in space, but he may have run up against opposition from...
...correspondent, "but there is no suggestion that the sheep was promoted to shepherd." Perturbed Scots have also raised practical questions: Would lonely widows want Nelson paying a call after dark? How could he comfort the family of a murder victim or preach on motherhood? But Nelson has many staunch defenders, who have pointed out that the young Moses committed murder and that St. Paul approved the killing of Christians before his conversion. "Surely Christ is still Redeemer," argued another letter writer. "Can we not believe that Mr. Nelson may be truly reborn...
...proposals by Dershowitz, a staunch civil libertarian, run against a long standing Harvard tradition that it does not award honorary degrees to anyone who does not attend the Commencement exercises in Harvard Yard...
...staunch Republican. However, should the Democratic Party select San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein, I not only would vote Democratic but would, for the first time in my 63 years, become an active campaigner...
Leisure Spa offered "nude modeling, nude encounters and nude rap sessions" to men who would pay a $10 membership fee-tipping extra, naturally. So what was Roger Jepsen, staunch promoter of traditional family values, doing there on March 15, 1977? Jepsen, now a Republican Senator from Iowa, had many explanations last week. It was, he said, "a moment of weakness." He dropped in thinking the spa was a legitimate health club, he contended, and left in a few minutes after discovering what was really being offered for sale-though he did sign an application. Anyway, the visit occurred half...