Word: stalwartism
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...course, Snowden is still with the Crimson, a senior stalwart on a resurgent Crimson squad. His counterparts, however, have leapfrogged him, finishing high school, zipping through abbreviated stays in college, and now starring...
Like Mississippi Burning, Cry Freedom and other well-meaning movies about race, Ghosts of Mississippi is not really about the black civil rights struggle. It's about the white liberal's burden--the crusade, waged by some stalwart fellow with star quality, to purge his community of official racism and to help all those decent people of color in the supporting cast. And of course the black actors don't get to play anything so interesting as a villain. Goldberg has to fashion Myrlie into a plaster saint, smothered by reverence, while Woods, snorting some invisible snuff, can have...
...former red meat stalwart now serves chicken, turkey, pork, lamb and seafood, even taking customers south of the border for burritos and quesadillas...
Agnew's death was truly mourned only by a few stalwart friends and defenders. William Safire, one of his former speechwriters, in a desperate revisionist effort even sought to excuse one of Agnew's racist comments ("What's the matter with that fat Jap?", directed towards a dozing Japanese-American journalist). Agnew's onetime campaign press secretary, Victor Gold, declared in what must have been a fit of hysteria that "Spiro Agnew was the John the Baptist for [the Reagan] revolution...
...Baltimore Orioles: it always seems to field a good team. T. Rowe features a well-balanced lineup of all no-load bond, international and small-stock funds. Unfortunately T. Rowe recently lost some of its luster in the small-stock arena after it closed Small Cap Value and longtime stalwart New Horizons this year. Why? Too much money was flowing in, making the funds cumbersome to manage. Its OTC Fund, however, which also invests in small stocks, is still open for business...