Word: steadfast
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...results of the President's Middle East speech could not be measured solely by General Assembly resolutions. Besides proposing a Middle East program, the President set forth, in terms whose echoes should linger long, the U.S. stand in the world: firmness in the face of "ballistic blackmail," steadfast opposition to aggression, loyalty to the U.N. Charter, friendship toward other nations and readiness to help them achieve their real and legitimate aspirations...
...sure your Ivy League, Rockefeller Plaza editors did not mean the snide subtitles and innuendoes of resentment against the wealth and success of the N.F.U. and the man who has had the vision and integrity to fight for them, and whose only sin is that he has been steadfast to democratic ideals...
...Tired, Aging Men." Such steadfast Republicans as Senate Minority Leader William Knowland and New Jersey's H. Alexander Smith defended the Eisenhower-Dulles report as "informative" and "positive," but from the Republican-Portland Oregonian came a bitter criticism of "the spectacle of two tired, aging men talking about the gravely compromised half-measures which bind and separate America from its European allies." Among Democrats, Montana's Mike Mansfield wished the report "had spelled out the sacrifices the people will be required to make in the years ahead." Harry S. Truman, holidaying in Manhattan, snapped during an early-morning...
...principle." He had apparently given little weight to the talk of new East-West negotiations that had swept Europe in the wake of Russian Premier Bulganin's preconference notes to NATO nations (TIME. Dec. 23). "If Communism is stubborn for the wrong, let us be even more steadfast for the right," he wrote in an article published in LIFE last week, and dismissed the question of a new round of East-West talks with the observation: "The areas where you can usefully reach agreement are quite limited...
...eloquence might have been conferred upon me. This evening is one of those times . . . Each of us would like to say what we know is in America's heart: welcome to our distinguished royal couple that have come to us. English-speaking people march forward together, to stand steadfast behind the principles that have made the two nations great−of the same faith in their God and in themselves−a belief in the rights of man . . . Ladies and gentlemen, will you please rise with me and drink a toast to the Queen...