Word: staunchest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They charge him with using tenure, promotions, and salaries to punish his opponents on the faculty in a systematic effort to stamp out dissent. They accuse him of censoring student publications and the student radio station. Most recently, they protest his effort to fire or suspend five of his staunchest critics on the faculty for teaching classes off-campus or making them up later during a clerical workers' strike this fall...
Donald Hunt, an occupational education teacher at the ITT Tech, is among the staunchest conservatives in the council race...
...staunchest opposition comes from those who hold absolutely that conception is life. But belief in the inherent value of life is not a trite axiom: it avows some faith in the quality of existence beyond the moral injunction "Thou shalt not kill." It becomes easy to see as hypocritical those anti-abortionists--particularly men--who condone extra-marital intercourse (or even intramarital intercourse) yet would refuse to financially and emotionally support the child conceived because of faulty contraception. The only morally consistent value-of-life position is to have intercourse only if one is willing to accept a child...
With that touch of bravado, Andrew Young last week announced that he had resigned as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Jimmy Carter, expressing "deep regret" in a handwritten letter, accepted the resignation of his close friend, fellow Southerner and one of his earliest and staunchest black political backers...
...efforts to revive his personal standing with voters before the next presidential election look more like a narcissistic charade than a national crusade. Mr. Carter's subliminal question to America remains the same: 'How do I look now, folks?' " The weekly Economist of London, perhaps the staunchest supporter of the U.S. in the European press, bemoaned Carter's "amateurism" and warned that the President could not solve the country's problems "unless there is some understanding of how the world works and some readiness to eschew symbolism and appearances and go instead after the substance...