Word: stalwart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard goalie Jim Murray came back strong last night after a weak performance last Saturday at Yale. Murray proved a stalwart behind the Crimson's defense, making 12 saves in the third period alone and stopping 30 shots all together. On offense Harvard's four lines produced a balanced attack...
Yetten proved the key stalwart in the Eagle defense, making 19 saves in the first period alone. Seven of them on Harvard's Leigh Hogan. The B.C. captain netminder blocked a game total of 43 shots, while the Crimson's Jim Murray made 28 saves...
...sane dull Washington of 1958, Journalist Allen Drury wrote his first novel-the one for which he is remembered-Advise and Consent. That was a blowsy, likable, jump-all-over-you book, about a Senate battle against confirmation of a Secretary of State; about a band of stalwart lawmakers, including one Senator being blackmailed for homosexuality; about a society hostess, and so on. It made a great read. It won Drury the Pulitzer Prize, which he even perhaps deserved: he had had the energy to people a big novel with a lot of boldly drawn characters and keep them moving...
Shortly after Nixon awoke at 6:30 a.m. Friday morning, he made his final decision: the next Vice President was to be his old friend and stalwart supporter Jerry Ford...
...Skiddy von Stade '38, dean of freshmen, and a stalwart supporter of the separate freshman year concept, approved the program, but the duties of the upperclass advisers were never spelled out. Presumably they were to serve not as peer counselors, but as older peers...