Word: stalwartly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some delegates, all the talk about economic modernization had an ominous sound, since Hu and Deng are believed to be preparing a broad shake-up of the party leadership throughout China in the name of modernization. As one party stalwart explained, "About 10% of the membership is no longer up to the grade." That could spell trouble for some 3.9 million party functionaries and officials who, in Deng's view, have failed to support his ambitious dream of a stable and modern China...
...minimalist spookiness. It is a mistake to do away with that huge and unreasonable vegetable and the scary possibility that it may be lurking behind every closed door. A deeper problem is that Carpenter's people are not strongly or wittily characterized (though Kurt Russell makes a stalwart hero). Not caring much about them, one's attention fastens on the Thing's spectacular depredations. When it invades a body, a man's guts may open and snap shut, taking a bystander's hands off in the process. Or a head may come loose, sprout insect...
...Harvard baseball team laughed Brandeis and its coach. Pete Varney '71--himself a former Stalwart on the Crimson nine--off the field a couple of weeks back, 25-2 However, when the Greater Boston League standings are in the books for 1982. Brandeis, not Harvard, will have the last laugh...
...sentiment, or lack of it, is common in the business. As one eminent three-year-old after another fell apart this spring - Deputy Minister, Stalwart, Lets Dont Fight, et al. - the horsemen's reaction was generally to shrug and say, "This is racing." But the fans tend more to be of the Black Beauty school of horse lovers, and the anthropomorphizing before the 108th Derby was fierce...
Meagher, the Crimson's star-crossed midfield stalwart, will see action for the first time in over a year this weekend as shooter in the team's power play. The knee cartilage of the former All-American has healed enough that he participates in non-contact and one-on-one drills at practice, though not enough to warrant excessive running or to risk taking an aggressive...