Word: steadfastly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson's fast but too steadfast last 1500 meters may reflect the squads lack of conditioning Washington had been on the water since early February more than one month longer than Harvard. The California crews were able to work out on the water all winner...
...take their lumps on the ice, then pass them along to the womenfolk in the bedroom. Loretta's steadfast affection for Dillon is meant to be win some, cockeyed and noble all at once. But in this benighted melodrama, com passion and indulgence are the same, and women are the stronger vessel be cause they take their punishment with a tear and a smile...
...mettlesome love story. Laden with debt and disowned by a mean father, Valentine (Joel Fabiani) is desperately attracted by a lovely charmer named Angelica, played by Glenn Close. His gallantry is matched by her guile. She tests and taunts him to prove the honesty of his love. He remains steadfast...
...been exposed, Bok told the NAACP, "much of our attention in recent years has been directed to overcoming these problems." And like a proud father, Bok pointed to the "sudden appearance" of affirmative action programs, minority recruiters and the Afro-American Studies Department as proof of Harvard's steadfast determination to deal straight-forwardly with its institutional failings...
FOREIGN POLICY. The new President was a steadfast cold warrior in the 1950s and a particularly hard-beaked hawk during the Viet Nam War. Yet when Richard Nixon began winding down U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia and moving toward détente with the Soviet Union, Ford staunchly defended those policies on the floor of the House. He also approved Nixon's overtures to Peking, but concedes that he would not have made them had he been President then. "Not with my record of 23 years' opposition [to Communism]," he told a reporter. "But I approve...