Word: steadfastly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Burying the Bomba. As soon as his victory seemed assured last week, the President-elect called a press conference to tick off his goals. A steadfast friend of the U.S., Marcos said that he foresaw no changes in U.S.-Philippine relations. Backing the U.S. stand in Viet Nam, he pledged that if needed, he would send combat troops in addition to the 100-man Philippine medical unit already there. And he called for a strengthening of economic and cultural relations among the SEATO nations...
...Year: Alabama's Attorney General Richmond Flowers for his steadfast refusal to compromise high principles...
...Aisley Maude . . . woke one morning, made my usual morning adjustment to God, with my Christian faith set strongly behind me, and my human limitation protecting me from too obliterating a vision, only to find that the picture was blurred, that God had moved, that the steadfast landmark, feature of all my maps, routes, views, references, had become an unidentifiable shadow. Now, if you are photographing an ancient monument of stone, and the stone moves and the photograph is blurred, perhaps it is wise to tell...
...chronology of his art shows (see color pages), few modern artists have passed through so many seasons of art with such persistent vision. For Chagall has lived through all the century's artisticisms, from cubism and surrealism to tachisme, and embraced none. Instead he has remained steadfast in the pursuit of his own midsummer night's dream, emptying it and re-emptying it, until it has become a distillation, universal in its appeal. Today his art is enjoyed by millions all over the world-whenever they pick up one of the books he illustrated, pray in the sanctuaries...
...Future. At week's end Taylor flew back to Washington to report to the President-and he found Johnson steadfast in his policy of hitting the Communists where it hurts. Earlier in the week, at a three-hour White House briefing for 42 Governors, the President declared his determination to keep South Viet Nam free of Communist control whether it takes "20 or 50 years...