Word: loyal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...terrorists poured 500 rounds of Sten-gun and rifle fire into one isolated farmstead, but a brave settler and his wife drove them off with a single rifle. Others attacked the home of 93-year-old Margaret Mallet, Kenya's oldest European woman, but were driven off by loyal Africans...
PROTEST NO MENTION OF THE ROYAL VISIT TO FIJI. THE COMMONWEALTH'S MOST LOYAL SUBJECTS GAVE IMPRESSIVE AND SINCERE WELCOME...
With war's end, Rickover's prospects seemed to have dimmed, and his personal life was none too happy. The Rickover family in Chicago had never been outwardly affectionate. Violent conflicts and bitter resentments were an integral part of its life, but it was close-knit and loyal. Captain Rickover had drifted out of this clannish environment. He did not follow Jewish customs; he did not go to a synagogue; he had married a gentile. At last he wrote a letter to his parents, telling them that he no longer considered himself exclusively Jewish in religion. A later...
...forest north of Nairobi, a gang of Mau Mau terrorists struck at an African village, captured a Kikuyu tribesman known to be loyal to the British, and chopped off his head. Round their wrists the terrorists wore bangles of human skin, stripped from the flesh of earlier victims. Their commander in chief, scar-faced "General" Dedan Kimathi, had offered them $7 for every dead Kikuyu, $16.80 for every dead Briton...
...years that followed, Teresa proved herself a staunch and loyal helpmate to both Luigi and the party, as he became the Communists' chief organizer and disciplinarian. She helped organize strikes. Whenever Luigi was carted off to a Mussolini jail, Teresa uncomplainingly took over his party chores. She fled with him to France and to Russia, fought by his side in the Spanish Civil War. In underground papers she edited, Teresa laid down the party line, and she also wrote three proletarian novels. No one ever questioned her ardor or orthodoxy. Presumably no more congenial pair existed...