Word: stalwart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tronies and absurdities were all there, befitting such a grand show. There stood Richard Nixon stalwart of Dulles's moribund cold war strategy of the fifties shaking hands with Premier Chou En-lat and Chairman Mao Tse-tung and reciting quotations from Mao himself (even if only from his poems). Equally absurd to see was Chiang Ching, ultra-leftist leader of the Cultural Revolution and wife of Mao, flanked by the Nixons at "The Red Detachment of Women" showing at Peking's Great Hall of the People...
Died. Sinclair Weeks, 78, crack Republican fund raiser who became President Eisenhower's Commerce Secretary; of cerebral arteriosclerosis; in Concord, Mass. The son of a Boston financier, Weeks was a G.O.P. stalwart throughout the party's lean '30s and '40s and served as treasurer of the Republican National Committee during the war. In 1952 Weeks raised $6,000,000 for the campaign. As a Cabinet officer (1953-58), he was best known for his successful advocacy of the Administration's multibillion-dollar highway program and his support of U.S. investments abroad...
...substitution of Sally O. Foster at half-back for the 'Cliffe and Holyoke's loss of Walsh combined to bring about a Radcliffe rally in the second half. Although their passing was less erratic, the 'Cliffe eleven threw away scoring opportunities on needless offside penalties. 'Cliffe offensive stalwart Nancy Cochran rushed the goal twice, but was unable to score...
Forecasting what it would be like with Peking in the U.N., former Ambassador Arthur Goldberg said: "Let's not kid ourselves. They are going to be very, very troublesome." Former G.O.P. Congressman Walter Judd, long a stalwart friend of Nationalist China, complained that "in essence, what President Nixon said is, 'If they won't give in, we will...
...Puccini's The Girl of the Golden West suddenly quit; the opera manager asked where he could find a substitute at the last minute. "Here's your man," said Puccini, pointing to 18-year-old Cleva, who had been conducting during rehearsals. Cleva eventually became a stalwart of the Met's Italian repertory...