Word: steadfast
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...Steadfast Bastard. Thus last week did Harry S. Truman, the snappin', cracklin', poppin' man from Missouri (TIME, Aug. 13), bring the 1956 Democratic Convention to life by twisting all the previous political equations. With Truman's twist, many Democrats were torn, e.g., Truman Biographer Jonathan Daniels of North Carolina, asked by Harry to support Harriman, replied mournfully: "I feel like a bastard at the family reunion. After you announced that you wouldn't run in 1952, you told me to go out and get Adlai Stevenson to run. Stevenson is still running...
...week, there was something manifestly rocklike about his manner. It was more than his flinty visage, more than his granitic words of advice (see below). In Konrad Adenauer the nation perceived a solid faith that the only way to preserve the West against Communism-smiling or unsmiling-is a steadfast pursuit of the policy of strength. Measured by Adenauer the Rock, it was clear how far the Western allies have drifted since Moscow began its seductive foreign policy aimed at neutralizing Germany and confusing her Western allies...
Citation: "Brave officer, able Senator, son of Harvard; loyal to party, he remains steadfast to principles...
...field of presidential hopefuls. His timing could hardly have been better; Kefauver and Stevenson were slugging each other into exhaustion, however temporary, and political leaders in both North and South, pending the outcome in California, were quietly looking over dark horses. Said Illinois' National Committeeman Jake Arvey, a steadfast Stevenson man: "All around the country I heard that Symington is the front-runner among the dark horses. Of course Stevenson would have to be stopped first...
...wish to suggest that we have become laconic since its lamentable disappearance early Saturday morning for we are steadfast in our belief that we are the oldest college comics in America. But it has, you see, taken just a bit of the edge off our care-free spirits...