Word: stalwart
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...morning coffee in Texas' 102-year-old executive mansion, Democratic Governor Price Daniel nearly got plastered. While chatting with some 100 lady guests, Daniel was almost conked by a ton of collapsed ceiling, but carried on as host with stalwart aplomb...
...Formosa's last general elections three years ago, the candidate who carried off the top political job of mayor of the capital of Taipei was no Kuomintang (government) party stalwart, but a hard-campaigning islander named Kao Yu-shu. Nationalist leaders, painfully aware that many Formosans (Taiwanese) resented the political control of the Chinese mainlanders, were quick to get the point. Overruling the advice of old-line ward bosses (who wanted to gerrymander Taipei into an independent city and make its mayor a political appointee), Kuomintang reform politicians set out to defeat Independent Kao in the next election...
...developing ever-closer relations with the Soviet bloc countries . . . And in that way the Egyptians, in a sense, forced upon us an issue to which I think there was only one proper response. That issue was: Do nations which play both sides get better treatment than nations which are stalwart and work with...
...second game Leverett met Adams quite handily, 4 to 0, behind the stalwart goal-tending of Roger Corke. Ed Galvin scored twice, John Coolidge once, and Eric Franck once while Dick MacKinnon and Dave Albertson each made two assists...
...dance tickets printed at $2.00 for $1.00--a recent change. It is rumored that this is a violation of statute, or at least foul play. I say let's clean up this mess, this corruption. And I say let's get a proven man to carry the torch, a stalwart champion of the rights of the Harvard Man--Denis Barber ('60). (Name Withheld...