Word: loyal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what to make of them. Neither is likely to have much real effect on the 84th Congress, yet each is almost certain to make headlines. The two share a peculiar position in midcentury political history: if Morse had taken his own advice of a few years ago and remained loyal to his party, the Republicans would control the Senate; if 1,500 fewer Oregonians had voted for Neuberger, the G.O.P. could have organized the Senate in spite of Wayne Morse...
...President's lead gave him time enough to strike a deal with the Guayaquil military command. By dumping Nebot, he persuaded the Guayaquil garrison to arrest the pursuing officers for "promoting disorder," when they stepped from their plane. (Four were soon released.) Velasco put the mayor of the loyal city of Guayaquil into the Defense Ministry in place of Varea Dónoso. At week's end the winner and still President of Ecuador was José María Velasco Ibarra...
...British put the seven mutineers in jail for safekeeping, let the captain out of the lavatory, and gave him back his ship, the Puszczyk (pronounced, by Poles, pushchick). He promptly sailed for Poland with the remaining six loyal crewmen, muttering philosophically: "To me is equal. Those seven wanted to leave. Let them...
Nevertheless, right down to their final act of betrayal, the moviemakers are sensitively loyal to most of Greene's transcendent meanings, and catch them, like mysteriously luminous fish, in a well-spread net of images. The result is something less than Greene's brilliant attempt to plumb the nature of pity; but it is at least a cruelly beautiful picture of a man who made a sin of saintliness...
...Kenya Colony's leading political figure, big, bluff Michael Blundell, told Britain's Colonial Office in London last week that the Mau Mau have been losing ground ever since last April when Britain gave Kenya's blacks a bigger voice in local government. Loyal Kikuyu, bravely standing out against the terrorists in their tribe, have done much to turn the tide. Mau Mau are now surrendering to local authorities at the rate of 25 a week as opposed to a scanty two a week, six months ago. The 6,000-odd Mau Mau gangsters still at large...