Word: loyal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loyal and effective union trouble-shooter for 30 years, Yablonski jolted the ossified U.M.W. hierarchy last summer when he mounted the first insurgency since 1926. Unrest had been simmering among the rank and file, who complained that union headquarters in Washington had ignored their demands for stricter health and safety procedures. Articulating these complaints, Yablonski attracted, among others, the support of Walter Reuther, Ralph Nader and John D. Rockefeller...
...roots and moved to Santa Ana, near the heart of Southern California's infamous Orange County. Since that time it has been a major organizing force for a large capitalistic cult there. The tiny college has had so much influence on Y. A. F. in California that some loyal Buckleyite board members of the National Organization reportedly suggested that mere affiliation with the school should be grounds for expulsion from Y. A. F. This suggestion was quickly dismissed when detractors were reminded what a sizeable percentage of Y. A. F.'s national elite had at one time or another been...
...Court. But now in the kindred movement of opposition to the war, enlisting many of the same people and in any case the same kind of people who participated in the civil rights movement, the sanction of the American flag and the plenitude of the Anglo-American tradition of loyal opposition has been purportedly withdrawn from us in sweeing gestures and sonorous rhetoric from spokesmen very high in the Federal government...
...seen to have been misconceived and to have proved unjust is not defeatism. In the Church it would be called collective repentance. As a secular nation, suffused however with some scriptural ideals as a kind of convenantal constitutional commonwealth, America is the greater for acknowledging through us, an articulate loyal opposition, that we have unwittingly done a great wrong and must be prepared even to make reparations for our mistake. And at the same time, without illusion, we must remain or become realistic about the totalitarian ferocity of the other side as it emerges exhausted but triumphant...
...Discrimination. The result is a feeling of schizophrenia. "Our nation, the Arab people, is opposed to our state, Israel," says Muhammad Hubeishi, a member of Acre's city council. "We can and ought to be like the Jews of America, who are loyal to their state without being disloyal to their people." More Israeli Arabs might heed that advice but for a feeling that the government does not do enough for them...