Word: stalwartism
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...came back in 1993. We feel at home here." Inez Fleming, 46, a family counselor, made a promise to attend the church of her new husband several years ago. She has since been divorced from her mate, but not from Oakhurst, where she has become an outspoken church stalwart. "I had a lot of problems accepting a white person as my spiritual leader," says Fleming. "But Stroupe [whom she calls Nibs] has really been a driving force in my life...
...captain Winkie Mleczko anchored the stalwart Harvard defense and also contributed two assists to the Crimson attack...
...lipogram, an old trick dating as far back as 500 B.C. in which authors voluntarily submit to awful handicaps, arbitrarily abjuring crucial signs or symbols and making writing, always a hard task, a virtual impossibility. In A Void, this onus is particularly harsh. All consonants, from stalwart b to languishing z, can occur in normal fashion; but only a, i, o and u may fill out what is ordinarily a quorum of 26. "Huh?" you may gasp, "no ...?" Shhhh! Do not think or, God forbid, say it, at any cost. To do so in this book is always risky...
...Northeast has always been somewhat Democratic, it's a Democratic stalwart if there ever was," says Adam Sohn, deputy press secretary for the Democratic National Committee. "They had a strong congressional ticket up and down...it was an example of real congressional politics and these guys have delivered...
Kennedy, the liberal stalwart and former chairof the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee,has traditionally been a strong supporter offunding for higher education...