Word: staunchest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...possible that powerful regional commanders like General Ngo Quang Truong of the ARVN 1st Division might turn into the equivalent of feudal warlords, carving out fiefdoms of their own. The staunchest antiCommunists, like Nguyen Cao Ky, might well fight on, backed primarily by French-trained senior army officers and Catholic refugees from the North. They could perhaps hold out for a time in scattered enclaves. In the end, though, the Communists would almost certainly gobble up the countryside piece by piece and destroy every last area of resistance. They could then reunite the country on their terms, although...
Prosciutto and Melon. The disputed merger is special because British Petroleum is 49% owned by the U.S.'s staunchest foreign ally, the British government. Equally important, BP stands to benefit hugely from its oil finds on Alaska's North Slope. BP has discovered reserves estimated at an enormous 5 billion barrels, or about 25% of the total believed to lie under that barren region. Seeking marketing outlets for its crude, a BP subsidiary last March bought approximately 8,250 East Coast filling stations from Sinclair...
...Baseball, according to a hoary cliche, is a game of inches. The Mets lost by feet, even yards, and they did so with agonizing regularity. In their first seven seasons they threw away the awesome total of 737 games while winning only 394 (see chart, page 51). Only the staunchest of supporters could have sat in the stands through those long afternoons and borne the relentless booting of ground balls, the repeated mistakes on the base paths, the dreary succession of batsmen looking at called third strikes...
...Philippines, once the U.S.'s staunchest ally in Asia, is in the throes of an election year and an identity crisis. It is plagued by corruption and graft throughout the government, and is gripped by a spiraling crime rate. Despite criticism of his regime, President Ferdinand Marcos will probably win reelection to a second term. Bowing to growing nationalistic feelings, Marcos already has begun to shift the Philippines toward a policy of assertive neutrality. The Philippines resent the fact that their base treaties with the U.S. are less generous than those just concluded with Spain, and would like...
...Professor Herman Schwartz of the State University of New York at Buffalo, one of the staunchest opponents of unregulated Government wiretapping, agreed. "Once you have such a tool," he said, "the temptation to use it is enormous." It could, others argued, be employed almost at will against any political dissident who happened to arouse the anger of an incumbent Attorney General. Describing the Justice Department's approach as a serious threat to the First Amendment (freedom of speech and assembly) and the Fourth (protection against unreasonable search and seizure), the American Civil Liberties Union has asked for a federal...