Word: diehardism
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...burly, boyish-faced farmer from the upcountry hills of Kenya stood before an audience of diehard settler folk in the Rift Valley town of Nakuru (pop. 22,481). He was Michael Blundell, 48, Minister without Portfolio in the Kenya government, come home to ask his constituents for a vote of confidence. Blundell has decided that the 2½-year-old Mau Mau war can no longer be won by bullets. One of Kenya's wealthiest farmers, Yorkshire-born Blundell was seeking support for his policy of giving the colony's 6,000,000 Africans and 100,000 Indians...
...what had happened to the inside men. A number of armed men dressed in civilian clothes, it said, had been caught inside the base. When asked to surrender, the group "unfortunately decided to resist arrest, resulting in six casualties." President Carlos Castillo Armas blamed the plot mostly on Arbencistas-diehard followers of pro-Communist ex-President Jacobo Arbenz, the victim of Castillo Armas' successful revolution last June...
...indeed. Jazz, which used to account for a tiny percentage of sales among the major record companies, has become a big moneymaker for the big labels. Across the U.S. there are also some two dozen companies making a comfortable profit by putting out nothing but jazz. Even such diehard highbrow companies as Westminster and Vanguard (The Bach Guild) have turned out money-making jazz albums. At Victor, which has just hired its first full-time jazz executive, a jazz-type record called Inside Souter-Finegan for six months outsold everything in the imposing Red Seal catalogue except Mario Lanza...
...Tory faithful more pleased with him. In Blackpool's Empress ballroom, 4,100 delegates to the annual Tory Party conference gave him a two-minute ovation and burst into For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. Even dapper Julian Amery, who last year led the diehard imperialists in an attack on Eden's decision to evacuate Suez, had only praise for Eden's achievements at the London Conference: "Far from renouncing our imperial mission, this gives us the chance to lead the world once more...
...dismal stretch the Giants lost 11 in a row. It was a test of fire for loyal followers, and many a diehard, headed for Coogan's Bluff, was heard to mutter lamely that he was going out to the ballpark, only because he needed a sunbath. The lard-encased Manhattan saloonkeeper, Toots Shor, once spoke the agony of all Giant fans in one gloomy flirtation with apostasy. "I been wonderin' lately," he told a friend. "I'm raising my kids to be Giant fans. I don't know whether I'm doing the right thing...