Word: steadfastedly
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...common effort to keep humanity from rolling off the plateau over a precipice, said Sir Oliver: "You may rest secure that Britain will not fail you and in the back of the mind of every Briton there is firm and steadfast belief that you will not fail...
...Cathedral, flanked by citations from two continents, testified that she was more than that. The plaque told of a night when Faith, a gentle grey and white cat, had "endured horrors and perils beyond the power of words to tell" and through them all "stayed calm and steadfast." Even the Times paid tribute to this heroine who "stuck, while the bombs fell, to her kitten...
That was Faith's story. In time her "steadfast courage in the Battle of Britain" was formally recognized by citations from London's People's Dispensary for Sick Animals and New York City's Greenwich Village Humane League, but Faith herself went right on being a simple church cat and mother. She still curled in dignity at the rector's feet as he conducted service in a makeshift chapel at the foot of the old church tower. Last week Rector Ross posted on the church tower a notice that "the bravest cat in the world...
Last week Jimmy Gardiner supporters were in the field, promising freight rate adjustments to the Maritimes, cheap feed grains to Ontario farmers, federal financial aid for scores of community projects. In Quebec, they reminded French delegates that Jimmy was a steadfast opponent of conscription (in private-he followed the party in public) and that he fought what he terms the "thin wedge of Communism" of the CCF in Saskatchewan...
...make comparatively short seasonal migrations between feeding and nesting places, that generation after generation, for millions of years, they stuck to the same routes. New oceans appeared and widened under their beating wings. New mountains reared up. The climate changed as glaciers crept forward, then melted. The birds, more steadfast than the earth, kept to their ancient flight plan, though their journeys became much longer than at first and twice as long as need...