Word: loyal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...style -- a bunch of parking-lot attendants and cabana boys devoting their spare time to fun in the sun. Today the game is a hard-charging sport, complete with big- bucks sponsors, a 29-tournament tour of 13 states, an aggressive players' association, lucrative television deals and mobs of loyal fans. "Players used to party all night and wake up under a coffee table an hour before the game," remembers Jay Hanseth, 37, a 19-year veteran player. Now, he says, "there's so much money at stake, players take it very seriously...
...promises to help in the hostage situation. When Hizballah leaders went to Tehran several weeks ago to express their condolences over Khomeini's death, they reported directly to Rafsanjani. He is believed to have dispatched his own men to Lebanon to bring into line pockets of Hizballah, including those loyal to Obeid, that still support Mohtashami...
...couple as crime busters. Turner is a small-town detective, an apt occupation for a man of his temperament. He has placed Hooch, the only witness to his former owner's murder, in protective custody. As the movie's none-too-ambitious mystery plot unfolds, it is Hooch, ferociously loyal to both his former master and his new one, who does most of the protecting. He's obviously never heard of Miranda rights. Not that he is a one-note character: he introduces Turner to romance with the local veterinarian (Mare Winningham), and in moments of repose...
...matter of marriage was not just figurative. Though Peary's adoring public did not know this, and his loyal wife Jo may have put aside suspicions, Peary had an Eskimo family. So did Henson. In one of the book's most touching passages, Herbert reports that in May 1971, Peary's Eskimo grandson Peter Peary reached the North Pole by dogsled with Avatak Henson, grandson of Matthew Henson...
...bullied and harassed by union staff and organizers. I was called at various times a coward, a traitor and a fraud. Our statement, taped to the walls, was torn down and efforts were made to intimidate me into leaving the area. I was told I am not a proper, loyal HUCTW member and I am no longer wanted in the union. Every possible pressure short of physical violence was brought to bean against me. Voters attempting to read out statements were taken aside by Union staff and instructed to ignore it on the grounds that we were a small group...