Word: steadfast
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...television and commercials but not onstage, fearing that evening curtains would ruin her schoolwork. They also refused to give her a lick of formal training. Other than a recent Christmas gift from her father--a book on acting for the stage--her parents have been steadfast in their conviction that she should find...
Lewis had clashed with Summers by opposing preregistration and by remaining a steadfast supporter of extracurricular involvement, among other matters...
Though both sides publicly denied that such an offer had been made, the contract would have tentatively netted Harvard $30,000. But Pusey remained steadfast, rejecting the offer with Yale not far behind...
This is Bush's own crusade, in which his faith remains steadfast. To critics who charge that he has dragged the country into another Vietnam, he responds that World War II is the more apt analogy. "America has done this kind of work before," he says. "We lifted up the defeated nations of Japan and Germany and stood with them as they built representative governments ... America today accepts the challenge of helping Iraq in the same spirit, for their sake and our own." Perhaps the greatest difference is that this time the actual invasion feels like the easy part. "While...
...Fortress Europe. It all but guaranteed victory when the colossal D-day operation was at last launched. As with so much else in World War II, the U.S. had more of it than any other belligerent. Winston Churchill tendered the U.S. its first gift of time by standing steadfast against the Nazi juggernaut in the Battle of Britain and the Blitz in 1940 and 1941. Thereafter, the U.S. had time in copious abundance, thanks mostly to the skill and cunning of F.D.R.--including, especially, his wily management of relations with Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, whose much abused people were plunged...