Word: stalwarts
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...John Dawson was a stalwart on the faculty from the time he joined it in 1957," said James Vorenberg, Dean of the Law School. "He was a fine teacher, a highly respected scholar and a wise and warm colleague who played a central role in the life of the school," Vorenberg said...
...spoken "carelessly" last month when he said that South Africa had eliminated racial segregation. An even more dramatic turnaround is in the offing. According to a senior Administration official, the President this week will announce a series of Executive actions that represent a stunning reversal of his Administration's stalwart rejection of legislated economic sanctions against South Africa. The measures to be announced by Reagan, according to the White House official, largely match line for line the seven essential points of the sanctions bill that the Senate is to begin considering this week, but go a step further by placing...
...worthy, if merely life-size, embodiment of his plucky namesake, serving as a much decorated U.S. Air Force officer and helping to oversee the development of atomic-powered satellites; in Laguna Niguel, Calif. The radio serial, which was largely sponsored by Wheaties, got the name for the fictional stalwart of Hudson High from a General Mills executive who had been a college fraternity brother of Armstrong...
...even Trueba's stalwart anti-communism does not prevent his rapid disenchantment with the tyranny and bloodshed which follows the accession of the military leaders. In one of the book's most touching scenes he helps his granddaughter's lover, a high official in the administration of the deposed socialist President, escape sure death by smuggling him into a foreign embassy in the trunk of his chauffeured Mercedes...
...tedium. Without the threat of an impending clash or the excitement of a landmark legal case, the protesters' initial euphoria would quickly wear off. The endless speeches and slogans would become tiresome; the urban bivouac would lose its glamor. The demonstrators numbers would slowly dwindle until the most stalwart holdouts finally returned to their dorms...