Word: stalwart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Monte Bownes, counted to be a stalwart in the offensive front and rated one of the top linemen in the east in the preseason of this sophomore year, has decided to give up football, causing another tough-to-fill vacancy. Add to Ferry, Friar, Manna, et. al., tackle Dan Jiggetts (6 5 in., 265 pounds), sophomore guards Phil Dombrowski and Ernie Pisanelli, and sophomore center Carl Culig and the interior line could be pretty well...
Senator Edward Gurney (R-Fla.), frequently regarded as a White House stalwart, joined Senator Robert D. Byrd (D-W.V.) and Gov. Daniel Evans (R-Wash.) in recommending that President Nixon appear before a news conference to publicly explain any possible White House involvement in the affair...
...parties have almost equal backing from Catholics and Protestants. Recent Alliance recruits include a number of Ulster's senior political figures, among them Sir Robert Porter, former Minister of Home Affairs, three mayors, five Senators and 70 local councillors. "I came over," explains Senator Millar Cameron, a longtime stalwart of the Protestant-dominated Unionist Party, "partly because I profoundly believe they are doing the right thing for Northern Ireland, partly because it involves the future of my grandchildren and partly because it involves the future of Senator Millar Cameron...
...flamboyant without ever becoming grandiloquent, a trap that Rattigan's script sets for him at every turn. Because Jackson is an eminently subtle actress, her Emma Hamilton is not merely a creature of fire, but a vulnerability imperfectly concealed beneath layers of scar tissue. The supporting actors are stalwart, except for Michael Jayston, who suffers from a kind of congenital insipidity...
...Marion, forced to use epee man Chris Jennings in sabre because of Gordon Rutledge's tonsillectomy, did not get much from Jennings, or for that matter, from any of the regular sabre men. Jennings dropped three straight to NYU, and captain Terry Valenzuela, who is usually a sabre stalwart, won but one of three matches...