Word: faithfull
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In 1865, when Japan permitted a Catholic church to open in Nagasaki to serve Western visitors, the Kakure, then numbering around 30,000 in the region, suddenly came out of hiding. But the missionaries took a hard line with the newfound faithful. "Many were bewildered when they were told to...
Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike. The third adventure of Rabbit Angstrom finds the ex-jock older, thicker around the middle, but still faithful to his love affair with the fading American dream.
Reagan "did not attempt to dispute this," Hiatt added, saying that while the president expressed his goal to limit the roliferation of nuclear arms, he remained faithful to that of negotiating "from a position of strength."
The B.U. side, actually both sides and everywhere else, was hardly better. Even the famed B.U. band was down in the gusto department, with only a dozen of its most faithful around to tune up an occasional chorus of the infamous "Go B.U.!" cry.
The Europeans who initially urged the U.S. to develop and deploy the new missiles reasoned that they would offset the growing arsenal of intermediate-range Soviet SS-20s while giving the U.S. bargaining strength in any future arms negotiations. Beginning in 1977, Schmidt led the campaign for the Europeans. In...