Word: stalwartness
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...meantime, a group of politicians and trade union leaders including an Area Commissioner who had been a long-time TANU stalwart, had begun conspiring with the ringleaders of the mutiny to bring about a real overthrow of the government. They planned to initiate a general strike on Saturday, followed by a coup on the following Monday in which, it was rumoured, Nyerere and his ministers would be removed...
...hearings looking shabby. There is, of course, the great and good exception of Mr. Welch (whom Richard Rovere called "the aesthetic dividend" of the proceedings). But then Mr. Welch was brought in by the Army from outside. It is easy to imagine what might have happened if someone less stalwart and more representative of the Washington atmosphere had been chosen...
Divorced. Richard Boiling, 47, Democratic Congressman from Kansas City, a Kennedy Administration stalwart but currently in hot water with Johnson for refusing to return from vacation for the recent foreign aid vote; by Barbara Stratton Boiling, 53; after 18 years of marriage, one child; on grounds of mental cruelty; in Reno...
...team's defensive stalwart is right fullback Sandy Peterson. Aided by the somewhat less spectacular but consistent Carl Seitz at left fullback, he has managed to spare the Yale goalie from excessive work throughout most of the season...
...formation solved an offensive ineptitude that had plagued the Elephants all season. The 28-point output exceeded the total Eliot scoring for its last five games in which a stalwart defense had managed to salvage three wins...