Word: staunched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Museum scrubbed me. The cancellation, the story in The Crimson said, was not necessarily welcome to Leon Wieseltier, the literary editor of The New Republic, who said, "I want people to see how wrong he is." Until I read this, I hadn't thought of Wieseltier as an especially staunch defender of Freedom of Speech...
...young Lott family returned to Pascagoula, where Trent practiced law. But after less than a year, the district's veteran Congressman, William Colmer, chairman of the rules committee and a staunch segregationist, offered Lott a top staff job. The family packed their belongings into a green Pontiac Bonneville and set out for Washington, as Tricia put it, "to stay a couple of years and see if we liked...
When Lott became Senate majority leader last summer, he found a new model of pragmatism in a slim volume called First Among Equals, which included a chapter on Robert Taft, the Ohio Republican who led the Senate during the Truman Administration. Like Lott, Taft was a staunch conservative who forcefully stated his views and didn't compromise on matters of principle--but who also worked to achieve the best deal available. "You can't usually get 100% of what you want in politics," Lott says. "But if you can get 80%, or most of what you want, that's usually...
...assassination attempt by the ultraleftist German Red Army Faction, is used to taking the heat for tough decisions. A senior economic-policy bureaucrat and later the top civil servant in the Finance Ministry, he was Germany's negotiator during the contentious exchange-rate talks of the 1980s. A staunch conservative on monetary policy, Tietmeyer nonetheless has supported European integration, and as far back as the 1970s sat on a committee that drafted an early plan for monetary union...
...closing the doors of Memorial Church to homosexual couples desiring to sanctify their union with a blessing ceremony, the administrative board is discriminating against homosexuals who have chosen to commit to each other and who want to do so within the auspices of the church. Harvard has a staunch policy on non-discrimination; to exclude same-sex couples from blessing ceremonies in Harvard's Memorial Church is blatantly to disregard this policy...