Word: staunched
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...dropped between them, which may have been the omen. Guy found it, pouched it in silk against his travels, had it when he came back for Danzel?but she was gone with her father, Shadrach, to California of the '50s. Happy the man, indeed! It took a staunch lad to go that journey, but Guy went it, by Panama. For months he roamed the roaring, gold-dusted country asking the cream and scum of 40 nations, not for metal or favors, but for word of her. No woman stayed him though he succored one, a young Italienne with a snakeskin...
Thinly disguised as an emissary of the English-Speaking Union, there has traveled through the U. S. of late weeks a small Semite, suavely overlaid with English polish, whose errand is to tell Americans about the staunch idealism of the British Conservative party. His modest, earnest accents have purred out over eager women's club audiences, Daughters of the British Empire, gatherings of journalists and at various hours and wave lengths of radio...
...What two staunch Republicans spoke strongly last week for the ancient Democratic doctrine of state rights...
...other Senator. He has something learned to say on almost every subject, but he does not carry many votes with him. That good looking, young-looking fellow just to your left-he is David Reed, a cousin of the other Reed but a Republican. He is rising fast, a staunch supporter of the Administration...
Amundsen-Ellsworth-Nobile. The bitter winds droned, the ether pulsed with wireless signals, blank white leagues of steppes and frozen lakes passed underneath for 21 hours before the staunch dirigible Norge swooped slowly to her mooring mast at desolate Vadso on the north tip of Scandinavia, 700 miles from Leningrad (where she had waited two weeks for repairs and good weather on her way from Rome-to-Nome). Pausing only long-enough to refuel and bundle themselves more thickly in furs, Colonel Nobile and his mates cast off again and sailed all through another Arctic night, out over Barent...