Word: stalwart
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...which had backed Nelson Rockefeller against Goldwater in the California primary, decided to stand by individual liberty, private enterprise and Barry Goldwater, thus remaining in the G.O.P. column for its 84th year. The New York Herald Tribune, with an even longer record-more than 100 years-as a Republican stalwart, said: WE CHOOSE JOHNSON. Confessed the Trib: "Travail and torment go into those simple words. But we find ourselves as Americans, even as Republicans, with no other acceptable course...
Both Captain Bill Crain and senior stalwart John Ogden have worked out sparingly this week and are doubtful performers in today's triangle meet. Crain suffered a gash on his knee in last week's loss to Brown, and Ogden has had a cold...
...took the Hanover, N.H., institution out of its intellectual backwater with such Ivy League innovations as tutorials, a liberal curriculum, and a hefty endowment (up from $4,000,000 to $20 million), while charming undergraduates by damning Prohibition, awarding unlimited cuts from lectures, and establishing a stalwart football team; after a long illness; in Manset...
...Khrushchev, it seemed a safe enough solution: Mikoyan as loyal front man in the official hierarchy, Brezhnev as loyal stalwart and deputy in the party ranks...
...nation's TV viewers know from watching many an open Cadillac -or caisson-make the trip, Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., has both grandeur and grubbiness. As it stretches toward the Capitol, the stalwart neoclassical façades of federal buildings rise evenly on the right. But on the left side is an uneven collection of old hotels, decayed storefronts vacant above the first floor, and dreary parking lots...