Word: loyal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...several stores) and by good deeds. Within hours of the accident, school officials established a Yuba City Choir Memorial Fund, which quickly collected $10,000 in cash and pledges for another $20,000. Private pilots ferried parents of the injured students, free of charge, to hospitals in Martinez. The Loyal Order of the Moose set up a center that collected 313 pints of blood in eight hours and had to turn away hundreds of prospective donors. An undertaker offered free burial plots but had no takers...
...hard to describe the depression that came over me when I read it. I've been so loyal for so long, though it is true that I've been out of college only five years. That's why the pieces of it are spread all over the floor; the pieces of Harvard's 1976 football schedule...
...have found that the average female volunteer believes that she is not really worth taking seriously. She shirks being judged by "professional" standards, being fired, reprimanded or competed with. "She is a 'good' woman: although she is working outside her home, everyone knows that most female volunteers are primarily loyal to their families--and not to their unpaid volunteer work...
...here Hellman's anger serves her well. She is still angry enough at American intellectuals and their reluctance to follow the simple rules of decency--"to try to tell the truth, not to bear false witness, not to harm my neighbor, to be loyal to my country"--in the first half of the fifties to be even more angry at their attempts now to glorify her. Hellman claims she feels little against the McCarthys or Nixons, whom she regards as merely the leaders of a movement in search of a scapegoat. Her anger is instead directed towards "the people...
Crimson coach Loyal Park then followed with a somewhat unorthodox move, ordering intentional walks issued to the next two batters. With the bases loaded, Warren Chellman delivered a two-run single, and a sacrifice fly followed that, giving Army an 8-5 bulge. Harvard's last-ditch rally in the bootom of the inning then fell short when Leon Goetz bounded out with the tying and winning runs on base...