Word: stalwart
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Mounted police moved in to signal that the demonstration was over. They were astride dapple-grey horses, the same stalwart breed that the Cossacks had used to run down street mobs with nagaika and saber in czarist days. 'Suddenly the scene dissolved into chaos, and photos taken by Western journalists provided a dramatic record of the astounding proceedings. This was. after all, the first time since June 1918 that a Moscow riot had to be put down by force. The cops let fly with whip and truncheon. Screaming "Fascists!" at the militia, the mob fought back with rocks, bricks...
...months. The pound has been put in peril, confidence in Britain's ability to adjust to the demands of the day has shrunk, and over the island that Blake called a "green and pleasant land" has grown an economic cloud that confuses, frightens and frequently infuriates its stalwart inhabitants...
Prospects at defense are considerably brighter than those up front, since the Crimson has lost only stalwart Mike Patterson from its rear guard. Captain John Daly and junior Bob Clark both skated regularly--and well--at defense last year. Chip Scammon and Red Coleman have looked good in practice and will probably be the other defensive unit Saturday night...
...Harold Macmillan's premiership just a year ago. Macleod's job: leading the Tory attack against Labor's program to renationalize the steel industry. Right behind Maudling and Heath in authority Sir Alec installed Selwyn Lloyd, 60, onetime Foreign Secretary and a highly regarded party stalwart who was sacked by Macmillan as Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1961. Lloyd's job: to drill the backbench battalions for the counteroffensive against Labor in the Parliament that opens this week...
...like to make Secretary of the Treasury. Most prominently mentioned was Donald Cook, ex-chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and present head of the American Light & Power Company. But Dillon, who definitely wants to stay in the Government rather than return to investment banking, has been a stalwart fund raiser in the past months and is now given an even chance of remaining...