Word: loyality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miss Levine snatched her bonnet from the ring amid pained protests from her loyal supporters. One of them, John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, said in Washington last night that he was "very disappointed" that her votes were not counted and urged her to "pursue her candidacy to the fullest extent...
...Republicans. When it was chaired by Missouri's late Clarence Cannon, one of the crustiest old tightwads in House history, Appropriations often choked off extra funds for almost anything that smacked of liberal legislation. Cannon died last spring, and the chairmanship went to Texas Democrat George Mahon, a loyal Lyndon man-but to Democratic leaders there was still a disturbing aura of conservatism about many of the 50 committee members. As for the 25-man Ways and Means Committee, headed by Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills, it had a longtime tilt to the right too-enough so that the committee...
...Eliot was modest, kind, immensely loyal to his friends. He was thought to be formidably reserved, but that was because he did not like casual chatter and hated to be lionized. Among close friends, he was unfailingly good company. His grave courtesy concealed astringent wit; he also liked jokes of the kind where the cushion, when sat on, makes a rude noise. He was tirelessly, patiently encouraging to young poets who wrote or sent manuscripts to him at Faber & Faber, the London publishing house where for many years he was a partner...
...four years of independence, Nigeria has been held up as a model for African democracy. Despite its 250 tribes and tongues, Africa's most populous nation (officially 55.6 million) seemed to stand in true and loyal brotherhood, linked by an expanding economy and a growing network of roads and power lines. Foreign capital was rolling in at close to $90 million a year, modern office buildings and factories were springing up from shantytowns, the literacy rate had been raised 50%, and four new universities were opened. Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa encouraged a free press, an active Parliament...
Moravia's story describes the plight of a frustrated Italian screenwriter whose wife no longer loves him. Hired to write a film version of the Odyssey, he sees his wife being seduced by the producer and drifts into complex psychoanalogies about Ulysses, the loyal Penelope and her pernicious suitors...