Word: steadfastness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Will government programs be adequately sensitive to the fact that good education and good research require steadfast concern for standards of excellence, and that neither will be achieved if it becomes a guiding aim of government programs to keep everyone happy and to avoid hard choices...
...aghast, Sullivan turned to other, less dramatic tactics and decided not to sink the barge after all. Sullivan's enterprises seem to be almost an annual affair. Last spring, for example, he dreamed up a building project for the Cambridge Common. All went well for him, in spite of steadfast opposition from the College, until word filtered down from the White House that it would be better if the Common were left in its present, unbuiltupon condition. This was one of those time when Harvard seemed glad to have so much of its Faculty working in Washington...
Died. Lieut. Gen. Manton Sprague Eddy, 69, U.S.A. (ret.), squinty, steadfast foot soldier who won a World War I commission as a second lieutenant despite having been expelled from two high schools, in World War II led the fast-moving 9th Division through North Africa and Sicily, subsequently took the XIIth Corps across the Rhine and as Commander, U.S. Army in Europe, rebuilt the occupation army in Germany into a mainstay of NATO's shield; of a heart attack; at Fort Benning...
...Lyons: "The national Democratic Party is 80% socialist and 1.000% anti-South. They are taking us down the road to disaster." The election of a Republican Congressman from Louisiana, Lyons argued, would "jar the Kennedy Administration to the marrow of its bones. If elected to Congress. I would stand steadfast and work unflinchingly against the onslaught of socialism...
Ostensible reason for honoring Luthuli was his steadfast advocacy of nonviolence in leading the fight against South Africa's racial discrimination. But by giving the prize to a black who is almost unknown outside South Africa, the Nobel Committee made a clearly political award that deliberately rebuked the racial extremism of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's government. Calling the award a "smack in the face," Johannesburg's die Transvaler bitterly complained about the "spirit of enmity toward a country that has in no way harmed Norway and Sweden." Luthuli was jubilant. "Thank God for it," he said...