Word: steadfastly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...report in California Medicine shows that doctors' marriages are, if anything, more stable than those of many other professionals. Authors, the pair found, had the highest problem rate, followed by social scientists, architects and college faculty members. Physicians ranked eleventh among the twelve professional categories considered (the most steadfast were natural scientists...
...have religious significance to them. At the other end, a smaller but steadfast group regards Judaism principally as a strict and compelling faith, in which nothing less than exact adherence to Torah and Talmud* will do. In between are those who acknowledge the universal community of Judaism, but who trace that community to traditional roots in a common faith...
...critic. Jamison continually embodies the critical faculty as an active presence, beset by New York critical politics and mass taste. He has no great philosophic commitment--which may be why, in Sheed's world, he is only a critic, and Sheed only a minor novelist. He does have a steadfast curiosity, a determined belief in the sublime and the perfect...
...family in which Bobbie (Jenny Agutter), Phyllis (Sally Thomsett) and Peter (Gary Warren) grow up is nearly perfect. Mother (Dinah Sheridan) is impish and radiant, Father (Iain Cuthbertson) steadfast and affectionate. They all share the joys of Edwardian London, generous' Christmases and outings to the theater. But one evening two strange men appear and call Father away. "Some dire calamity is happening," says Bobbie, "I just know it." Indeed, Father does not return, and Mother tells the children that they will have to "play at being poor...
...fill a Senate vacancy in 1925. He arrived on Capitol Hill sporting bulbous yellow shoes and an "oaken-bucket haircut," but soon dispelled the notion that he was a bumpkin: he used his seat on the Public Lands Committee to expose the Teapot Dome oil-lease scandal. A steadfast foe of America's entry into World War II, he popularized the phrase "merchants of death" to describe munitions makers, later was one of the drafters of the 1936 Neutrality Act barring U.S. aid to belligerents...