Word: stalwartness
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...expects Charles Melvin Price to make waves as chairman of the Armed Services Committee. He is a party stalwart, almost unknown outside the House, the defense world and his downstate Illinois district. Notably, he lacks the arrogance of his predecessor, F. Edward Hébert, and any instinct for newspaper headlines...
...tung. A member of the Communist Party since 1927 and as a Politburo appointee, one of China's chief negotiators with Henry Kissinger, the rumpled, jowly Yeh has long been highly esteemed in both party and army circles. He has, however, always been a stalwart supporter of Mao's dictum that "the party commands the gun"; thus his appointment symbolized the reassertion of party authority over often independent-minded military leaders...
...White House tapes spun in relentless revelation, they emitted a verbal cacophony offending those stalwart upholders of the exigenicies of the nations's grammar and the subtleties of its idiomatic charm. The defenders of lucid prose shuddered at the mangled sentences--the pronouns without antecedents, the flabby modifiers, the split infinitives, the undue use of the passive voice, the malevolent creeping of coarse phraseology. A nation stood appalled that the language of Jefferson, of Webster, of Emerson, Melville, and Mencken could be contorted into such a mockery of America's verbal heritage...
Todd Nieland was particularly impressive in blocking innumerable shots in front of Petrovek. Eddie Rossi, in one of his best games in a Harvard uniform, played a strong offensive game in addition to turning in a stalwart defensive performance...
...guard, sophomores Jonas Honick and David Rogers have won the starting berths. Honick led the freshman team in scoring last year, notching a 17.1-per-game scoring average. Rogers played sixth man for the freshmen last year and earned himself a reputation as a good backcourt playmaker and defensive stalwart...