Word: stalwart
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...Harvard women’s basketball team has learned that the all-important Ivy League “W” requires a stalwart...
...Crimson has allowed 23 power-play goals on the season, but neither the Saints nor the Golden Knights could crack Harvard’s stalwart defensive unit...
...beating the drum for the Chinese who had not made it to the Golden Mountain: America. At war's end she was 40 - not as old as the Great Wall, but getting on. Age had thickened her features, and years of playing either stern villains or stalwart heroines had stripped animation from her face. Now it was an impassive mask, as if she were preparing for a Peking Opera version of a Samuel Beckett play...
...wheelchair and in need of ever more rest. Talk of retirement that surfaced three years ago has effectively been stifled, leaving Vatican observers with a nagging question: Who is really running the show at the Holy See? Rome's influential Cardinals no doubt are having their say. Conservative German stalwart Joseph Ratzinger who heads the office that oversees all moral and theological issues and Secretary of State Angelo Sodano whose role is traditionally that of a de facto Prime Minister are largely given free reign to run their respective dicasteries. Many insiders note that ultimately groundshifting decisions must...
...retire from the Supreme Court. Which means the guessing game is in full swing over which of the court's sitting Justices is most likely to replace him. If he does not go outside for the job, President Bush will probably choose one of the court's two most stalwart conservatives, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. Scalia seems to have the edge. "The idea of appointing the first African-American Chief Justice has undeniable appeal to the President," says a top Republican who informally advises the White House on judicial nominations. "But there'd be a huge fight over Thomas...