Word: loyal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the President was a formal one based on mutual respect; they never used the intimate Spanish tu with each other. He was one Cabinet member who had stayed out of the big deals, had no bad name with the public and no private enemies. But in years of loyal service, Ruiz Cortines had never given Alemán trouble, and there was no reason to believe he would. On his record, Ruiz Cortines was honest enough to satisfy public opinion, and "safe" enough to satisfy the men around Alemán. So Alemán himself chose the cleanup...
Case of the Businessman. Such was the case of John X. Outwardly, he seemed to have nothing to worry about. At 46, he was one of the top executives of a key railroad; he had job security and a salary of better than $20,000 a year, a loyal and capable wife, a son who had just quit college to serve in Korea, two younger daughters, and a comfortable home on Long Island. John X was so well regarded by his neighbors that he was often called on to give his time and talents to community causes...
Last week, in a masterful bit of fence-straddling, the Corporation reinstated her, but announced that she would not be reappointed when her present term expires next June. Cried the Boston Herald: "A ponderous pussyfooting . . . You can no more be partially loyal than you can be partially pregnant...
...bookies have ever had a better cover for their activities than Martin Wanzig, 42, of Chicago. Judged by the standards of his high-paying profession, his average under-the-counter traffic was modest: seldom over $35 a day. But his clientele was loyal and steady. As a patient-orderly at Chicago State Hospital, a 385-acre mental institution, Wanzig enjoyed a virtual monopoly on the betting of 5,000-odd potential horse players...
...likelier possibility, which many powerful elements in the party urge, is that Eden will give up the Foreign Office and concentrate on being deputy Prime Minister. This would enable Churchill to stay in office, to shuck some of the routine responsibilities, and to insure the succession of his loyal deputy. But Eden is reported not to look with favor on this plan: he does not like doing only routine jobs; as an old officeholder, he dislikes a title without a department to go with it. Furthermore, he fears that the foreign secretaryship might go to his chief rival in foreign...