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Word: stalwart (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...competition before the major league All-Star game in Seattle last week, Crystal became the first female to win a championship when she outpointed seven boys in the finals of the nine-to-twelve age group. One of two girls on her Little League team, Crystal has been a stalwart-this year she's hitting .528 and getting on base 70% of the time-since her coach discovered her throwing a ball against a building. Besides baseball, her interests include basketball, music, bike riding and the Pittsburgh Pirates (her idol: Outfielder Dave Parker, who strong-armed the National League...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Phillies' Champion Filly | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...discriminate in hiring or promoting people because they are homosexual. Television and movies are treating gay themes more openly and sympathetically. ABC's hit series Soap, for example, has two homosexual characters, one a macho football player. Another sign of the times: Advice Columnist Ann Landers, a stalwart champion of traditional morality, now counsels parents not to be ashamed of their homosexual children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: How Gay Is Gay? | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

Located inside the street entrance to the church, the Nameless offers a wide variety of local talent, replete with guitars, harmonicas, stalwart fans, you name it. One a typical night you can expect to catch a lot of guitar music accompanied by male or female vocalists, or vice-versa. Or maybe a group. Or a commedian if you're very lucky. Most of the music is original, and sometimes it's good enough to make you want to trash your old Joni Mitchell albums. And if you don't like the first act, stick around, there are seven sets...

Author: By Elizabeth E. Ryan, | Title: This Column Doesn't Have a Name | 3/15/1979 | See Source »

...turn sent then" tanks to confront the Americans. For 16 tense hours, the two superpowers were thus nose to nose. Though White House advisers were rat tled, Khrushchev finally backed down and withdrew his hardware. But the wrong lessons had been learned. Instead of rewarding Clay for his stalwart behavior, the White House thought he had exceeded his authority, and the general soon resigned his post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: History Without a Hero | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

Freshman Adele Joel and first-year diver Pam Stone have been the most consistently fast times against Princeton last week, including the medley relay Senior stalwart Sharon Beckman has been plagued by illness, and Emily Feldman and Julie McAree are on their way up--but they're not quite there...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Weekend in New Haven | 2/9/1979 | See Source »

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