Word: steadfast
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...that he would drastically cut back military spending, his restrained response-or non-response-to the Communist offensive in Viet Nam unsettled some of his more hawkish supporters. Some of his critics attacked on both fronts. South Dakota's George McGovern, one of the Senate's most steadfast antiwar spokesmen, called the ABM decision, "a blunder comparable to the decision to escalate the war in Viet Nam in 1965." In a speech planned for delivery this week, McGovern aimed one of the bitterest attacks on the war heard since the 1968 election: "We hear that...
Positive: Steadfast, reserved, traditional, ambitious Negative. Snobbish, unscrupulous, selfish Career: Ambassador, ruler, organizer, religious
Because of De Gaulle's steadfast refusal to consider full Common Market membership for the U.K., Britain has clung desperately to the WEU as its only regular forum for multilateral conversations with the Six. When France refused to attend this month's WEU meeting, Paris claimed that what Britain wanted to discuss was the Common Market, a subject technically off-limits to the WEU. Foreign Minister Michel Debré once more raised De Gaulle's favorite specter of Anglo-Saxon conspiracy. Debré declared haughtily: "France considers that the British, who are always inclined to align themselves...
...Walter Washington. As the first mayor of our nation's capital, he has proved to be steadfast and undaunted in his dedication to equality, unity and peace...
...CRIMSON, steadfast in her role as self-styled vanguard of the people, wrote of those who refused to take part in the War Bonds campaign: "If their conclusions are that any money they lend the government will aid in prosecuting the war, that Roosevelt should shoulder all the Burden, and that their own troubles come first--then let them think carefully before giving monetary aid to their country. They should be applauded for their courage to stand up for their own rights. They will probably still be doing, so when the Japs land at San Francisco and the Nazis...