Word: steadfastness
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Clementis' fall from grace was no surprise to the West. Though a steadfast Marxist of many years standing (he was a Communist member of Czechoslovakia's Parliament in 1935), Clementis had aroused the Kremlin's ire several times. In 1939, he denounced the Nazi-Soviet pact; ordered to Moscow to explain this, he refused to go. Instead, he spent the war years in London with Jan Masaryk and the liberal Czech government in exile...
...poor of Glasgow in his will, was no loser at all on his own terms. At a dinner speech delivered during the height of his career, he succinctly summed up his philosophy: "A man may have many friends, but he will find none so steadfast, so constant, so ready to respond to his wants, so capable of pushing him ahead, as a little leather-covered book with the name of a bank on its cover...
...going to make it ten times bigger than ever before," he announced defiantly. "I'm going to add angels in fluorescent lights." There would also be 13 more sheep, another dog and shepherd and 1,500 more lights. Blizzards of mail came from supporters, urging him to be steadfast...
Yesterday & the Day Before. In the wet, early morning, thousands thronged Bonn's churches for special services. Bishop Otto Dibelius of Berlin and Brandenburg, a steadfast antitotalitarian, told an overflow congregation in the Martin Luther Church: "We must break our ties with the day before yesterday, for it contained the seed that became the curse of yesterday. Let us create a new day in which God's will prevails." By "the day before yesterday" he meant the Weimar republic...
...tightly controlled by a five-member board of directors. But Miss Shipman seemed little concerned with the temporal honor of her new position. Said she: "If Mary Baker Eddy were here today she would see the signs of the growth she most desired," signs that stem from "a more steadfast consciousness of the all-power and all-presence...