Word: loyal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jackson's surge is in large part a measure of his unique position in the crowded field of aspirants. In contrast to his opposition, he has positioned himself squarely with the military-industrial establishment and big Pentagon budgets, thus cornering several limited but loyal bases of support and money. In recent weeks, he has tempered his pro-war views; he now favors a gradual withdrawal. He supports the President's proposed trip to China. Jackson also claims to have the most liberal voting record on civil rights and domestic issues of any prospective candidate. The Americans for Democratic...
...their loyal, long-suffering fans, the New England Patriots are beginning to look like the New England Traitors...
Politically, the Arabs do not accept even the concept of multiparty government. In most Middle East nations, there is no room for a loyal opposition; the terms are mutually contradictory in a society where "the enemy of my enemy is my friend." The idea of an opposition party committed to Moscow rather than Cairo or Tripoli or Khartoum is totally unacceptable...
...blues-most properly known as Delta or country blues. Along with such other black masters of this unique American art form as B.B. King and Howlin' Wolf, Muddy is riding the crest of a surprisingly long-lived blues revival. Of them all, he remains the purest, the most loyal to where he has been and what it has cost him. Muddy's brand of Delta blues is supposed to follow the traditional twelve-bar structure, but as often as not uses eleven or 13 bars. Despite its metric uncertainty, it is a two-beat, shuffling kind of music...
...dialogue is vapidly laconic, with plenty of unpregnant pauses, and Fonda delivers it that way. He possesses the bruised canine look of his father with its perpetual hint of being over-loyal and underloved. Gates is good at suggesting a beat-up, used-up man who has not turned bitter. The untainted honesty of Verna Bloom's performance gives it the effect of beauty. She has an authentic frontier woman's face, planed by the seasons and by loneliness At one point, she says, "I'm all aching and sore from these last six years " After only...