Word: staunched
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Among the areas of the law where his replacement by a staunch conservative might make the greatest difference...
While by no means indicative of the activities of the Board today, the Galbraith incident provides a useful milestone in the history of government at Harvard. A Board comprised of staunch clergymen when it was created in 1642 has over the intervening three and a half centuries acquired a much more diverse complexion--now sporting a wide membership that includes Blacks, women, businessmen, and academics...
...appease those of you in places like Cincinnati or Phoenix -- possibly it is merely the best in New Jersey. But this isn't a position you would want to argue on Seventh Avenue, where the people hurrying between the shop and their double-parked cars tend to be staunch Giordano's loyalists...
...most visible Vice President of the 20th century, and the most successful." Indeed, Nixon took principled stands during the late '40s and into the '50s that demanded true courage: he supported the Marshall Plan when his constituents complained about throwing away more money in Europe, and he was a staunch enemy of segregation and a champion of civil rights. But life as Eisenhower's Vice President cramped Nixon as much as it exalted him. Ambrose, who has also written a two-volume biography of Ike, catches the tensions in this relationship perfectly: "After ordering Nixon to take the low road...
...into it was me." Last December he closed the deal for about $5 million and has begun modest restoration work on some of the rental cabins. Says Mac McDonald, managing editor of the Carmel Pine Cone: "What really surprised people was that he bought it to preserve it." Concedes Staunch Foe Swain: "It was a magnificent thing that...