Word: staunchly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...done most to make "her scholars the intellectual bodyguard of her warlike rulers. . . . [But] who, in this totalitarian age of ours, is without sin in this respect? .... Those who expect the university ... to turn out good citizens in the conventional sense of the term, successful men of affairs and staunch adherents to any prevalent religious, social, or political creed, will inevitably be led to limit the freedom of research and teaching...
Shinwell was hit by blasts from the Laborite press, as well as by demands to resign in the Conservative papers. He had only one press defender: London's Communist Daily Worker (it blamed the Tories). London's Daily Herald, staunch friend of the Labor Government, severely took the Cabinet to task for failing to keep the public informed of the developing crisis. Said the Herald...
...serious doubts exist on Lilienthal's integrity, they should be dispelled by the unequivocal support given him by Secretary of War Patterson, a Republican, and Under-Secretary of State Acheson, as well as by numerous other respected Americans, many of staunch conservative leanings. Furthermore, his statement on democracy, which he links directly with the meaning of religion, was commended nationally by leading newspapers and executives as a laudable definition, one worthy of every American...
...individual portrayals are good, but the characters, in the few moments devoted to each one, are standard types: the patriots are staunch, tight-lipped, and unmoved, the German commander a thicknecked, bullet-headed remnant of the days of Von Stroheim's Junkers. The photography is excellent, but in the precarious position of being either documentary or drama or both, "Jericho" achieves at best an uncertain effect...
...Russians mean to use the old-fashioned "grab" as a technique, then the United States must substitute wariness for any form of apriori sympathy. If the Soviets mean what they say about Spitzbergen, the only alternative for this country is staunch opposition. If the move is the demand for thirty where but fifteen is expected, America is left with the same lone path. The tragedy lies in the elimination of the other alternative--sympathy with Russian means based on confidence in Russian aims...