Word: stalwartly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Senior stalwart Chuck Johnson set the meet's tone by beating archrival Sergio Aguerro to the tape in the 100-meter high hurdles with a time of 15.1 seconds...
...Caribbean today is the theater for a naval war. At stake are the sea lanes through which in 1980 passed 20 million lbs. of Colombian gold-marijuana worth $16 billion on the street. Challenging the smuggling fleets with a thin, stalwart line of vessels is the U.S. Coast Guard. Since January the Coast Guard has intercepted and seized 779,847 lbs. of marijuana, with a market value of $273 million. The best record of interceptions is held by Dauntless, a 210-ft.-long cutter with a crew of 85; 40 marijuana leaves have been painted on the ship...
...counted a majority of 51 Senators opposed to any AWACS sale; 46 already have gone on record against it. So have 78 Representatives, and House leaders say a majority probably is opposed. Moreover, the opposition includes not only traditional Democratic friends of Israel but staunchly conservative Republicans who are stalwart Reaganites on most other issues. Concedes a senior Reagan political adviser: "As of today, the Saudi deal would not get through Congress...
Many Peres supporters had hoped that a sign of new strength might emerge from the appointment of Labor shadow cabinet members last week. But it was not to be. Peres picked a Labor stalwart like Haim Bar-Lev as shadow Defense Minister, but his choice as shadow Finance Minister was mild-mannered Haim Ben-Shahar, president of Tel Aviv University. Ben-Shahar is a respected economist but is considered no match for Aridor in the political arena...
Britons were horrified last month when Rupert Murdoch, the sensation-mongering Australian publisher, bought London's revered though unprofitable Times newspapers. Now another Fleet Street stalwart, the 190-year-old Sunday Observer, has been sold to an improbable new owner. He is Roland ("Tiny") Rowland, the chief executive of a $5 billion. London-based conglomerate called Lonrho Ltd.; his secretiveness and taste for takeovers have led him to be described by a former Prime Minister as "the unacceptable face of capitalism...