Word: steadfastness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hicks has been a steadfast opponent of the racial imbalance laws in Massachusetts which forbid school enrollments more than 50 per cent non-white. She also has stubbornly opposed proposals to remedy racial imbalance in the city of Boston through busing...
...fingers on each hand and shouting "Whommy! Whommy! Whommy!" at opposing players. His lackluster successor, Wes Westrum, guided the Mets past the Cubs to their first ninth-place finish. They recorded another first in 1966: they lost fewer than 100 games. Despite the change, attendance rose, and the steadfast fans still brandished their banners and sang their chants. But some of the old élan was gone. The Mets had become just another bad ball club...
...moral victor was Larry Malo, general manager of Marine Gear Division, who limped home in sixth place on five (out of six) flat tires. If nothing else, his steadfast performance demonstrated the indestructibility of the new machines. Conceived as hybrids of the dune buggy, the snowmobile and the military amphibious carrier, the all-terrain vehicles are 7 ft. long, weigh between 400 Ibs. and 500 Ibs. and cost about $1,500. At least twelve companies are now manufacturing models that run on 7-h.p. to 20-h.p. engines for up to five hours without refueling. They can cruise as fast...
...private flat designed for orgies, complete with floor mirrors, and an elaborate camera setup for making movies of all the fun. Copy of Krafft-Ebing in hand, the wide-eyed widow goes through all the paces, developing a real yen for the "Aristotelian perversion." Only a strong, sober and steadfast physician (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is able to set her straight. But-surprise-he digs Aristotle too. That isn't much of a punch line, but then, The Libertine isn't much of a joke. This slick little bit of Italian pornography has enough brains not to take itself...
...years old when she died five years ago. Incurably ill from the age of 26, she had only been able to publish two short novels (Wise Blood and The Violent Bear It Away) and a single collection of short stories (A Good Man Is Hard to Find). Now her steadfast friends have made a collection of her nonfiction prose...