Word: loyal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suit to end that ban, Hoffa was trying to lay the groundwork for his return to power by becoming the dominant (but unofficial) force in his old Local 299 in Detroit. Opposing Hoffa's campaign was none other than Teamsters President Frank Fitzsimmons, who had once been his loyal underling and the man he picked to keep his chair warm while he was away in prison. But once installed as the head of the Teamsters, Fitzsimmons had grown to like the heady feeling of power. "No one has ever been disloyal like this rat Fitz," Hoffa once said, adding...
...this moderate stance is probably only a ploy, Cunhal has been able to take much of the edge off his own reputation as a ruthless Stalinist. Even the least sympathetic officers have been impressed by the Communist Party's discipline, its effective organization and-perhaps above all-its loyal collaboration with the military. Only rarely does Cunhal drop his guard and publicly deride parliaments, elections and democratic freedoms...
...Loyal Officials. Kanellopoulos, a highly respected leader of the National Radical Union, told how he had been arrested at machine-gun point by junta soldiers and taken to the monarch in 1967. He urged the King, who was also commander in chief of the armed forces, to order loyal officers to crush the colonels' rebellion. The weak and inexperienced Constantine, then 27, refused, fearing bloodshed. Instead, he swore the colonels into office...
...intervening to save the visual environment from awesome but ugly technology. Still influential 50 years after the school's demise, the Bauhaus style of teaching permeates Carpenter Center and other university art departments. But this pervasive influence had not yet made itself felt in 1921, the year of these loyal contributions. In fact, the Weimar, Germany Bauhaus School was only two years old. The puzzle in the enthusiastically supported portfolios is that at this time most of the contributors hadn't met each other, had not graduated from the Bauhaus, and worked in very different styles...
After a decade of solely religious programming, in 1971 Robertson also began running secular children's shows and reruns of wholesome sitcoms (Leave It to Beaver, Corner Pyle) that lured a larger audience to stay tuned for the religious shows. Listeners are extremely loyal: most of the network's income -$10.7 million this year-consists of their small contributions. The remainder comes from commercials that are screened for good taste and reliability...