Word: staunch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...report was being spread that Michigan was about to break up and desert Vandenberg. The story, under an eight-column headline in the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, confronted delegates hurrying out to Convention Hall. Walter Hallanan, national committeeman from West Virginia and a staunch Taft man, announced that he would vote for Dewey instead...
When the early Church came into contact with the licentiousness of Greco-Roman civilization, it became the staunch advocate of matrimony. The Church even tried to keep Christian marriages from going on the rocks by offering its members advice more detailed than anything Dorothy Dix ever attempted. Saint Chrysostom (347-407) wrote that no wife should say to her husband: " 'Unmanly coward and lazy sluggard, look at that man . . . His wife wears jewels and goes out with a pair of milk-white mules. She is attended by a troop of slaves, but you have cowered down and live...
...convention hinges on the big-delegation states, including New York if the race goes against Dewey. The men to watch for the vital switches will be Pennsylvania's Duff, California's Warren, New Jersey's Driscoll, Illinois' Green and Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge, a staunch Vandenberg man, who this week was chosen as chairman of the convention's important Platform Committee...
Next, the Gimo turned to General Ho Ying-chin, staunch antiCommunist, former war minister and chief of staff. While a Chinese representative at U.N. last year, General Ho had attended a Buchmanite meeting at Niagara Falls.* Friends said that he was a changed man. But, even fortified by moral rearmament, General Ho was not anxious for the headaches of the premiership...
...convention, which was under the sponsorship of the Young Republican Club, opened with a keynote address by Congressman Claude I. Bakewell of Missouri. "The American people are tired of personality without character," Bakewell proclaimed. "Both on its record and as staunch advocates of freedom, the GOP is entitled to choose the next President and he will be a strong President," he continued...