Word: stalwart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Like Connally, he is a forceful campaigner, but unlike Connally, he is a longtime party stalwart apparently untainted by scandal...
There were other upsets in Democratic senatorial primaries last week. One of the most spectacular came in Michigan, where the party was choosing a successor to retiring Michigan Democrat Philip A. Hart, 63, the stalwart liberal who is gravely ill with lymphatic cancer. Maverick Congressman Donald Riegle, 38, ignored the wishes of the kingmaking United Auto Workers and challenged favored State Secretary Richard Austin, 63, for the nomination. Riegle won, 44% to 29% A former Republican Congressman whose liberal policies earned him a place on Richard Nixon's enemies list, Riegle switched to the Democrats in 1973 and this...
...Communists. In a solemn mood of self-congratulation, he commended other parties for affirming Yugoslavia's "principles of independence, equality, autonomy and noninterference." As the conference ended, many observers and participants agreed that this might well be the last attempt at Communist summitry. Predicted a Yugoslav party stalwart: "The conference had no past-and no future...
Amiable Lies. There are a couple of funny baseball stories in Some Champions. Lardner's hero is the stalwart Keefe, who has a nice smile and a gorgeous head of bone. He brags in a letter to Friend Al that he is in line for a big raise if he beats the Red Sox. The date of the story-roughly 1918-can be guessed from the fact that the Boston pitcher is Babe Ruth, who had not yet switched to the Yankees and the outfield, and from the size of the big raise-$600, bringing Keefe to the affluence...
Bartlett, who is currently a stalwart on the Crimson golf squad, had little notion of the Hagen mystique when he joined the caddy ranks at the age of fourteen and began to forge his near-scratch golf game. He received a guiding hand from club pro Sam Urzetta, an ex-caddy himself who won the U.S. Amateur crown in 1950 after a playoff with Frank Stranahan...