Word: loyal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Spot. Each network firmly believes it has a host of loyal followers who sit before the glowing tube and never tune to another channel all evening long. Therefore what precedes and follows each program becomes terribly important. A show that has a small audience, even if it has a contented sponsor, is a network liability. NBC last year dropped the veteran Voice of Firestone, despite the advertiser's willingness to pay its way, because the network thought the show's low rating ruined all the programs that followed it. Explains an executive: "A bad show in an evening...
When news of Fuchs's testimony first leaked out, A.U.'s President Hurst Anderson rushed to his defense. Fuchs, he declared, was "an intelligent, loyal and devoted teacher. He made a serious mistake in the past, which he has recognized and declared." The university, added Anderson, had every intention of keeping him on: "To take any other position at this time would be beneath the dignity of an institution with a Christian relationship and commitments...
Missionaries feel that Jewish fears for their children's faith are unfounded; though they teach them in a Christian atmosphere, they train them to be loyal to their parents and homeland and do not permit them to be baptized...
Brutality, unfortunately, has some American devotees. One school of military thought sees value in the savage treatment GIs receive as prisoners, for they believe the horror of captivity preserves discipline in the fighting ranks. No doubt many soldiers fear capture, but a humane nation should desire no motives for loyal fighting beyond a firm conviction in the necessity of battle, and fair courts-martial for those who desert their ranks without good reason...
...Countess ultimately finds herself loyal to her husband but devoted to another man. Yet she never focuses this dilemma upon herself. The movie remains a story rather than a study, and this limitation is its chief fault. Although passions are continually involved, their dramatic opportunities go unheeded...