Word: stalwart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wyoming's John Wold, 53, long a party stalwart, may get enough help from a third-party peace candidate to unseat Gale McGee, the Democratic incumbent who is generally a liberal but a consistent supporter of the war. Wold faces insignificant primary opposition...
...film's hero is Simon James (Bruce Davidson), a stalwart on the university rowing team with only a passing interest in political agitation. Radical students call for a strike against the university's plan to put up an ROTC headquarters on a playground, while James and his teammates scull on the river. Two chants ring in our hero's ears: "Stroke!" and "Strike!", surely a more suitable title for this simpleminded exercise. James chooses the latter. It is never explained why, exactly, although it seems to have something to do with the nubile presence of Linda...
...sseldorf agency with the unusual name of Team. The agency made its mark when a distiller gambled $60,000 to try to move several thousand cases of unsold vodka out of his warehouse. Team came up with a series of ads showing a stalwart adventurer and a bear paddling through Finnish lakes or going on African safari. The punch line: "Puschkin Vodka for tough guys." For the next three years, the distillery could not make enough vodka to meet the demand. So successful was Team's small German campaign for French-made Vittel Mineral Water ("The water that rejuvenates...
...goes, through John Resor, son of Army Secretary Stanley Resor; Lindsay McKelvie, stepdaughter of CIA Boss Richard Helms; and Lincoln Chafee, son of Navy Secretary John Chafee. Avant-Garde suggests that "all ten of their fathers resign immediately and nominate their children as their successors." Another Republican stalwart with a dissenter in the family is Ronald Reagan, whose singer daughter Maureen returned from a 35-day USO tour of Viet Nam convinced that we should no longer have a military victory...
...Senate by the same margin. The fight is putting Republicans on the spot, too, because it is difficult to justify the reduction of $1.1 billion in health and education funds as vital to checking inflation in a nearly $200 billion budget. Republican Senator George Aiken, usually an Administration stalwart, speaks for many of his colleagues when he grumbles: "The President could have found a better bill to veto...