Word: loyally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fitness to handle confidential information as an atomic adviser. The first Senator on his feet was North Carolina's conservative old Clyde R. Hoey. He disagreed, Hoey admitted, with many of Graham's principles. But, orated frock-coated, windy old Senator Hoey: "He is as loyal as any American who walks this earth ... no one who knows him would hesitate to trust him with any secret this nation might have . . . he is a great American." In his interim appointment, new Senator Graham will serve until 1950, may then try to be elected for the rest of the term...
...Many loyal alumni are also alarmed over the ties of Harvard professors, Griffin maintains, because of suspicious that undergraduates are being exposed to "too much liberalism...
...Gazette pays its easygoing, underpaid staff a top of only $50 a week. In the tiny newsroom, up a cobwebby staircase in the Gazette's old building, there are not enough typewriters to go around so the staff takes turns writing stories. It leans heavily on loyal volunteer correspondents for breaking news. Bragged one staffer: "There is not a police department or a fire department within a hundred miles that would not telephone us the news at any time of the day or night." But when the occasion demands, the sleepy Gazette wakes up with a bang...
...Boston's streets, citizens will gather together in hearty bands. Glorious pageantry will ensue. Some will take the part of the British; some will don quaint Gaelic costumes and take up the storied shillelagh. And the famous contests of former days will once more enliven local byways, as the loyal sons of the sod relive the glories of Saint Patrick and the defeat of the Orangemen...
Coming when they did, the President's remarks floored even loyal Administration leaders. As for the Republicans, many of them decided that in the light of what Harry Truman had said, they were ready at last to agree with the Southerners. The Southerners had been saying right along that any change in the present cloture rule would open the way for further attacks on the long-cherished right to talk in the Senate as long as voice and kidneys held out. Republican enthusiasm for the anti-filibuster fight, never great, dwindled...