Word: loyal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists, the witnesses testified, were the G.I. "progressives," and one of their leaders was Sergeant Gallagher. Opposing them in the psychological struggle were G.I. "reactionaries," led by Sergeant Lloyd W. Pate of Augusta, Ga., also a Regular, who used both oral argument and force to keep wavering Americans loyal. "What do you mean by force?" demanded the trial counsel of Sergeant Pate. "Why, sir," the leader of the reactionaries replied, "you just beat the hell...
...Mirza. a whisky drinker and a heavy cigarette smoker, loathes intrigue and is staunchly loyal to those who trust him. Says he of Pakistan's politicians: "They are mostly crooks and scalawags." Last year when, as Governor of East Bengal, he worked titanically amid the flood disaster and was mobbed by genuinely cheering crowds, a Pakistani said: "Mirza has done more for the common man whom he says he despises than all the politicians who promised a new heaven and earth to get votes." Today Mirza lives in a big house with ample grounds and cool white porticos...
...they take their secret shame with them wherever they go, and to compensate they become rude, overbearing and superlative-addicted ... In other cities the fandom is notoriously ignorant, unfair or surly - sometimes all three. Only in the Polo Grounds do you get a solid mass of intelligent, polite, yet loyal, spectators." Clearly, Fiction Writer (Big Out) Hano suffers from the astigmatism of his trade ; his picture is purposely a little out of focus. But sitting with Hano at that game (Giants 5, Indians 2), and rummaging through his baseball memories with him, is fine fun. Still, the reader wonders what...
Though the Army's case against the three-compiled from the testimony of hundreds of loyal ex-P.W.s-looked substantial enough, there was some doubt about the Army's right to try them. Technically, Bell, Cowart and Griggs are civilians-dishonorably discharged from the Army at the time they, and 18 other American turncoats, turned their backs on their homeland and families and disappeared into Red China. But since 1950, the armed forces have claimed the right to seize and court-martial civilians for major crimes committed while in military service. The legality of that claim...
...Then came the white boycott of the Milford schools because ten Negroes had been let in, and people approved when Bowles crowed: "The only thing black in the schools . . . will be the blackboards." Even when he was arrested for conspiring to violate the Delaware school-attendance laws, thousands remained loyal. They paid no attention when the state attorney general accused him of fomenting mob rule; nor did they seem to mind that he had once been in trouble with the Baltimore police for failing to pay some workmen. Bryant Bowles was leading the Cause...