Word: loyal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard baseball team went 22-7 last season and nobody seemed to notice. In fact, if they chiseled Coach Loyal Park's face out of Mt. Rushmore people would probably think it was Teddy Roosevelt without his wire-rims...
...inept administrator with exaggerated forebodings, he nevertheless has some grounds for anxiety. He heads one of the toughest unions on earth, whose members seldom hesitate to use their fists or a weapon to back up an argument. When Miller became president, he had to contend with U.M.W. officials still loyal to Tony Boyle. In such a situation, physical safety can never be taken completely for granted...
...center of the turmoil was H.R. ("Bob") Haldeman, once the crewcut, fiercely loyal chief of staff to President Nixon, now serving a minimum one-year term at California's Lompoc prison farm on a conviction of perjury in the Watergate coverup. Last May Haldeman had fumed as he watched his former chief imply in televised interviews with David Frost that he might have saved his presidency if he had just had the heart to fire earlier his two closest aides, Haldeman and Domestic Adviser John Ehrlichman. Haldeman vowed then and there to turn his pro-Nixon memoirs into...
Somalia's President Mohammed Siad Barre, who was Moscow's most loyal friend in the area until he kicked the Russians out last November, stepped up his appeals (so far unsuccessful) for Western military support. "If the Russians are not thrown out of this region," he told an interviewer, "the third world war could break...
...addition to 44 minutes in penalties for both teams, Harvard had the misfortune of running into Garbage Night in Ithaca, as the loyal but degenerate Cornell faithful continually showered the ice with raw eggs, dead fish, and rubber chickens. But then again, that's the only fun the action-starved hotel management majors ever have...