Word: loyalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...takeover in Central America." An Albuquerque recruiter, Guy Gabaldon, quickly signed up his quota of 100 men and asked Managua for permission to enroll more. Somoza also ordered up his own National Guard reserves. Reportedly, he did so with reluctance because of suspicions that they might not otherwise remain loyal and turn over arms to the rebels. In any case, Somoza needed the extra help. His regular guard forces were said to be spread so thin that some were taking Dexedrine to stay awake and were so distraught that they shot civilians and even unarmed Red Cross teams...
...almost a century ago, in Tom Sawyer Abroad, he described how his hero boarded a balloon in the Midwest and flew across the Atlantic with his loyal comrade, Huck Finn. Don't journalists read Mark Twain any more...
...flies 141 F-4Es, 64 F-14As, 20 F-14s; and 180 more jets are on order. He has spent $500 million on 491 Bell helicopters, and will pay out another $500 million to train his men to fly them. Washington evaluates the Shah's army as an intensely loyal, well-equipped force. Manpower is 220,000, with 300,000 reserves...
...guarantee his future by yielding some of his absolute rule and compromising on a constitutional monarchy. At the same time, he would enhance the stability of a region that might turn to chaos in his absence. If the Shah falls - and that is now something even his most loyal subjects consider at least conceivable - the end of his long rule will not have come at the hands of a foreign power, or the dissidents, or the army, but from social forces that he simply failed to perceive as he tried to modernize his historic remnant of the Persian Empire...
DIVORCE "I think that matrimonial love is giving of oneself to another, but so intimate and noble, so loyal and trustful, that in a way it claims everything, and in another it excludes everyone. That love is a decapitated love if we admit reservations, a temporary nature, and rescindability. So that divorce is the sword of Damocles hanging over conjugal love: its presence generates uncertainty, fear, suspicion...