Word: staunchly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...class Irishman whose parents migrated to America to escape the potato famine, the young Berrigans were torn between conflicting aspects of their own background. On the one hand, there was the immigrant's desire to prove himself a loyal American, combined with the Catholic's tendency to play the staunch, conservative counterpart to the renegade, insurgent Protestant tradition in which America was founded. On the other hand is the fact that their father, Tom Berrigan, was a progressive and a labor leader, a rarity when set against his own background. And yet Tom Berrigan was so loyal a Catholic that...
...officer between 1922 and 1930, turned from writing war stories for pulp magazines to serious military commentary in 1928, subsequently publishing 15 books on military and international affairs. During World War II he wrote a widely syndicated New York Herald Tribune column and appeared regularly on CBS radio. A staunch advocate of seapower, he argued that the U.S. could build impregnable defenses without compromising democratic tradition...
BACK HOME the ADA was never like this. You expect staunch liberals, oldish, straight-backed, and supremely moralistic. And so you are surprised when you step into the gilded ballroom of the Sheraton Plaza Hotel and find 800 Americans for Democratic Action-young and fashionably dressed-minis, midis, maxis, and even a pair of hot pants. Paying $1250 a plate for dinner, they are at least reasonably well off, and their clothes suggest that they are even better off than that. The guest list is heavily studded with Jewish names, but it also includes a few McKay...
...convictions put President Thieu, a Catholic, in almost direct confrontation with what is considered his most stable power base, the Catholics. Already significant segments of the Catholic church have come to the defense of the two priests, including those considered staunch anti-Communists...
WILLIAM BROCK III, 40, Republican, Tenn., is handsome and earnest, a wealthy candy manufacturer who describes himself as a "staunch individualist." He attacks the status quo, marking himself as a new kind of moderate Southern conservative. Three House terms on the Banking and Currency Committee have made economic policy his primary concern, and he will generally back Nixon in this area...