Word: loyal
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...main danger springs from the deep and bitter division between the overwhelming majority of Greek Cypriots who are loyal to Makarios and the small (2,000 members) but powerful EOKA-B organization. During last summer's coup, the EOKA-B sided with the then ruling Greek military junta to overthrow the archbishop. Unlike the leaders of the Athens junta, most of whom are now under arrest and awaiting trial on a Greek isle, the EOKA-B gunmen remain at large, mainly because Greek Cypriot authorities are eager to avoid another violent showdown after the debacle of the Turkish invasion...
...find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supports his king on loyal principles; and cuts off his king's head on republican principles...
...Surrender. On the fatal Saturday, Aman remained inside his concrete bungalow, protected by a loyal detachment of Third Division troops. "I will never give myself up," he had told a relative a few days earlier. "I will die like a soldier." Some time after nightfall, Fourth Division troops under Mengistu's command attacked Aman's house with tanks, armored cars, bazookas and machine guns, and in the ensuing two-hour firefight the general was killed. Foreign observers in Addis Ababa speculated that certain members of the council may then have panicked and ordered the mass executions to take...
Strauss yesterday said he remains confident labor will remain loyal to the party. "The party needs people like [George] Meany and John Henning very badly," Strauss said. "As for their future support, I'll hope...
Butz should resign--although if rumors that Ford is preparing for Butz's dismissal are true his resignation may not even be necessary. Ford will have to contend with a constituency that remains fiercely loyal to Butz--the farmers, a group whose interests he has served diligently. Certainly, the Secretary of Agriculture should not ignore the interests of American farmers, but he should not serve them to the detriment of farmers in Asia, Africa and Latin America. American agricultural policies must begin to take the rest of the world into account. One of the Norwegian delegates in Rome suggested that...