Word: loyal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That was taken as a tut-tut for Nixon, but the President had held his ground on the general question: "I have said that my admiration and my respect for Vice President Nixon is unbounded. He has been for me a loyal and dedicated associate, and a successful one. I am very fond of him, but I am going to say no more about...
...garden. During interminable parleys with desert sheiks, he would pick imaginary lice from his burnoose to make his guests feel at home. Called Abu Huneik (Father of the Little Jaw) because of a bullet wound incurred on the Western front in World War I, he molded his loyal tribesmen into a hard-disciplined force of 20,000 men that helped to save Iraq from a pro-Nazi revolt in World War II and alone among Arab armies stood up to the Israelis in the Palestinian...
...Before relief could arrive, the rebels withdrew, their mules loaded with a hundred rifles, a dozen machine guns and ammunition. Sixty-five of the company's Moslem riflemen went with them. Twenty rebels and eleven of the defenders were dead. Of the survivors, only 15 Moslems had remained loyal...
...short and sharp. At week's end, the Free Democratic Party split with a grinding crash of rhetoric and recrimination. Dehler and his remaining 33 Deputies surlily went into opposition. The 14 other ex-Free Democrats announced they would form a new German People's Party loyal to Adenauer. The old man had done better than anyone expected, even though ahead lay new dangers of fragmentation in his coalition...
...that has already been lost to competitors. Example: a Los Angeles chain that normally sells more than 3,000 Westinghouse refrigerators and laundry units a year is receiving only 35% of its normal volume, and is selling General Electric appliances instead. Nevertheless, Westinghouse has kept most of its dealers loyal by stretching inventory, stepping up advertising allowances, and in some cases even supplying them with competitors' products, e.g., lamp bulbs...