Word: staunchly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keep his audience on the edge of their chairs, Caniff, a frustrated actor, has borrowed many a trick of stagecraft. He is a staunch Alfred Hitchcock fan, fond of the director's way of opening a suspenseful sequence with a silent sound track. He has aped the best Hollywood techniques (and some of the worst) by switches from closeups to long shots to trick camera angles-and fadeouts with profiles turned to a corn-tinted sunset. He depends on Leo Ardavany, a neighbor who manages the movie house at nearby Haverstraw, to tip him off when a useful picture...
...China's calm, clearheaded Ambassador to the U.S. Few statesmen are more at home amid the intricacies of world politics and economics (he was China's Foreign Minister six times and has been its ambassador to most of the major capitals of the western world). A staunch champion of world organization, Dr. Koo was China's man at the League of Nations, the pleader for its action to halt Japanese aggression. At San Francisco he was the first to sign the U.N. Charter (he used a brush to write the Chinese characters of his name...
...such statements boosted the incident toward Sarajevo-like proportions, Clerk Braunspiegel, wild-haired and sad-eyed, a staunch middle-of-the-roader, sought to ease the tension. Mused he: "We should give in a little, Russia should give in a little . . . I don't know...
...Dudleyites found their attack repeatedly begging down, with the exception of some long end sweeps by Marty Greeley, and several sensational catches by pass-receiver Pete Duble, but they fought hard on the defense behind a staunch forward wall led by right guard Greg Nazarian and seized upon a first period break for the margin of victory. In that frame, left end Marshall raced 80 yards for the game's only score after grabbing a Leverett fumble in midair...
...C.I.O.'s P.A.C. They also retired Republican Representative Joseph Clark Baldwin, who had often voted with the New Deal and played a more sedate game of footy with the vociferous P.A.C. In Joe Baldwin's place they nominated State Senator Frederic R. Coudert Jr., a staunch conservative who had Governor Thomas E. Dewey's backing. In two other key New York City primaries, P.A.C.-backed candidates were also snowed under. Republicans were feeling good...