Word: loyal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...could have been, scarcely a decade ago, a pious Roman Catholic Mass, just the sort of loyal demonstration to gladden the heart of a Pope distressed by the faithlessness of the modern world. The worshipers had come early to the auditorium in the northern French city of Lille; while a choir chanted medieval Latin hymns, the congregation quickly filled 5,700 seats and spilled out into the aisles. Then the celebrant of the Mass entered, a pink-cheeked, white-haired priest who moved solemnly up the aisle behind a quartet of acolytes bearing lighted candles...
...Olympics far outdrew the conventions. Of course, networks have other motives. Conventions are their most conspicuous "public service"; they are also television's own Olympics, with their news departments' prestige at stake. Besides, there is the adrenaline of it: a fatiguing 12-hour day watching over his loyal floormen from a swivel-chaired aerie has to be as heady for Walter Cronkite as describing five blast-offs Into space. Yet all the feats of gadgetry, all the energetic floor work went largely to waste during last week's noisy and frequently mindless prime-time demonstrations...
...times, but failed often enough to account for his years in the cooler). Sutton confesses to being unreformable, and does not pretend that the buffetings of fate made him that way. Having thus alarmed his readers, he goes on shamelessly to reveal that he is kind, brave, generous, loyal, patient, intelligent, well read, nonviolent, and courteous to old ladies. Less deserving souls have been appointed to federal judgeships...
...seventeenth year as Director. The experience has been profoundly satisfying and never routine: a new school each year, but with a basic continuity; the interesting decade of the sixties and the new challenge of the seventies have been fully registered on the Summer School. I have had a strong, loyal and creative staff with minimal turnover in key positions. I have enjoyed the cooperation and friendship of members of the Faculties of Arts and Sciences and of Education throughout my tenure as Director of the Summer School. Yet, twenty years is a long time and I feel that...
Despite its small enrollment, Hyde turns out exceptionally good athletic teams, and 95% of its graduates, according to Gauld, have gone on to college. Many are loyal alumni. Says Will Collins, 22, a student at Grinnell College in Iowa: "Hyde is a conservative school advocating not a return to traditional values but to excellence." Some parents credit the school with changing their own lives for the better, as well as "remarkably" improving their children...