Word: loyality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through all the messy court cases that kept her name on U.S. front pages in the '20s and '30s,* Aimee's 35,000 followers remained fiercely loyal to their thrice-married leader. Even after her death in 1944, the church she founded, with its halfmoon-shaped, neo-Romanesque Angelus Temple in Los Angeles, continued to grow...
...hand of a Spanish assassin in 1584. William is revered by the Dutch as the Father of the Fatherland, and his House of Orange has occupied the throne continuously since The Netherlands became a monarchy 150 years ago. To Dutch Protestants, the monarchy's most fiercely loyal subjects, the royal family's motto, "I Will Maintain," is an unspoken, centuries-old pledge to defend their faith against all foes. For many Dutchmen, Franco's Spain...
...Acción Popular party won a clear majority throughout the country. And now with national sentiment on Belaúnde's side, the opposition has more reason to cooperate. As a leader of APRA, Peru's most powerful opposition party, puts it: "We are the loyal opposition-or better, our position is one of critical cooperation...
...Individuals tend not to hold out against unanimous group judgments, even when the group is clearly in error. Conversely, humans are most loyal to small groups of peers. Strikes are more common, for example, in industries that tend to be insulated from the larger community, such as mining and lumbering. Similarly, people prejudiced against one ethnic group tend to be prejudiced against others, and do not even know the depth of their prejudice. >"Tolerance" is only slightly promoted by more information. Communication of facts is generally ineffective against predispositions. Even small social changes, if undesired, cannot be effected without heavy...
...minds." A few hours after the ceremony, one of Forrestal's aides found him back at a spare office in the Pentagon, sitting in a rigid position, staring at the bare wall opposite. When the worried aide tried to talk to him, Forrestal said only: "You are a loyal fellow." When Forrestal went home, he seemed bewildered by the fact that he no longer had an official limousine. Alarmed at his condition, friends bundled him off for a Florida vacation, but Forrestal's mind was elsewhere. He kept repeating that he was a failure. He said that...