Word: stalwartness
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Ground Swell. Chamberlain credits the Freeman's upsurge to a "political and psychological ground swell in our direction," and he hopes not only to ride it but to help influence it. In the '30s, when Chamberlain was a young stalwart of the left wing, he was well aware of the force exerted on middle-of-the-roaders by the leftish press. "We are now trying," says Rightist Chamberlain, "to pull the middle-of-the-road back to the right." Thus far the Freeman's pull has been hard, but uneven. The magazine has pointed...
...Lewis Williams, 39, a Philadelphian who has had seven of his letters published,* all since Nov. 27, 1950, although he first started writing us three years ago. His most recent nominated "a once stalwart gent known as Dollar Bill" to be runner-up to the Man of the Year. Another of his letters, suggesting that a local Airedale was "a perfect Hollywood glamour girl," brought "comments by the dozens and dozens," he told us. "The rector called me on the phone to give his blessing; a man stopped me on the trolley to say how much he liked the . . . letter...
...runner-up to your Man of the Year, I'd like to nominate a once stalwart gent known as Dollar Bill...
...impossible not to laugh at this. When we inadvertently laughed at this remark, a well-dressed neighbor shot a hostile glance at my notes and threatened to kick me "in the teeth." This stalwart shuffled his feet like a prize fighter and kept ramming his elbow into my companion for the rest of the meeting...
Today, the village (which includes the parishes of Offord Cluny and Offord Darcy) has 536 inhabitants, 129 cats, 70 dogs, 275 bicycles, 46 motorcars, 167 radios and 17 TV sets. It has lived through the threat of the Armada, when 15 stalwart citizens went off to war bearing pike, arquebus and sword. The village lost one man during the Boer War, 20 in World War I, four in World...