Word: stalwart
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...around the woods at night, Keel sings songs about Rose Marie, whose sex he has finally got straightened out. With minor acting interludes supplied by Bert Lahr, Marjorie Main, and a pot-bellied Indian chief, the film moves slowly to a rather cynical conclusion. Not only is red-faced, stalwart Howard Keel jilted, but Ann Blyth, who rivals the scenery for talent, rides off with Fernando Lamas to tend his trap lines for two or more years. They are not married...
...power should be (in Papagos' view) bound to make trouble. By shaking up his Cabinet. Papagos managed to strengthen his own control of the government. But significantly enough, he announced that there would be no change in economic policy, and kept at the top Cabinet jobs two stalwart Markezinis men, Economic Minister Thanos Kapsalis and Finance Minister Constantine Papayannis...
Just as we can beat the field, our pals the British are almost as unbeatable, regularly whipping the French. It is only against the stalwart American (known with withering scorn as "Colonist") that a hero of Duquesne or the Peninsula loses his sense of strategy and decency...
...barrage," said a Navy citation, "was followed by a vicious assault by onrushing enemy troops. Resolutely advancing through the veritable curtain of fire to aid his stricken comrades, Hammond moved among the stalwart garrison of marines and, although critically wounded himself, valiantly continued to administer aid to the other wounded throughout an exhausting four-hour period. When the unit was ordered to with draw, he skillfully directed the evacuation of casualties and remained in the fire-swept area . . . until he was struck by a round of enemy mortar fire and fell, mortally wounded. By his exceptional fortitude, inspiring initiative...
...aging (74), onetime Democratic New Deal stalwart (who broke with the national party to support Ike last year) was nettled by a new clause in contracts between the Government and banks which make Government-guaranteed farm price-support loans. The clause would require these banks to hire employees without race discrimination. Egged on by bankers, Byrnes telephoned President Eisenhower in Denver. Said Byrnes: "I talked with the President ... he does not want departments of the Government to usurp the powers of Congress or by executive fiat to interfere with the business practices of citizens when there is no law authorizing...