Word: stalwart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Quincy House tackle football team, led by its stalwart defense which has allowed only three touchdowns all season, battered Dwight-Silliman, 13-0, to give Harvard its only victory over the Yale Colleges in Friday's intramural tackle football competition...
...Faught said, "I made a lot of dumb mistakes in our first game, but I'm progressing in terms of analyzing strategy in different situations. It's a super feeling to have guys go out and execute plays the way I wrote them down," the varsity lacrosse stalwart added...
Desparately trying to beat the clock, the gallant 'Thropmen drove 87 yards to the Kirkland one-yard line. But the K-House front wall, led by the likes of tackle Tom 'Beef' DiBennedetto and fromer All-Ivy stalwart Carl Culig (now a Kirkland premed advisor), slammed the door shut as time ran out, thus preserving Kirkland's tenuous six point edge...
...takeover is hardly imminent. The normally liberal Democratic Party commands the White House, controls the Congress and most of the statehouses and legislatures. But from the President on down, Democrats are behaving much more cautiously than in the past, their liberalism laced with heavy doses of conservatism. Such a stalwart right-wing leader as National Review Publisher William Rusher believes that Jimmy Carter is so conservative that he might even be worth supporting over a more liberal Republican. With the tide running in their favor, the challenge for the conservatives is to translate success with current, perhaps transient issues into...
...Milan, however, the authorities were determined to go ahead with elaborate pretrial procedures. Two hundred members of the bar association volunteered as defense attorneys, and nearly 1,000 stalwart citizens stepped forward for jury duty. Some 1,500 carabinieri with attack dogs and armored cars surrounded the courthouse and guarded every participant. Everyone entering the courtroom, even magistrates, had to undergo five separate security checks. "It would have been a disaster if this trial too had been postponed," said Indro Montanelli, Italy's leading conservative newspaper editor, who was shot four times in the legs by Red Brigades gunmen...