Word: steadfastness
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...delegates sat down around OPM's long walnut conference table, a sense of urgency filled the room. From the side walls blazed posters: TIME IS SHORT; UNITED WE STAND. From the far end of the long room, a new portrait of Winston Churchill gazed down, stern and steadfast...
...need His guidance that this people may be humble in spirit but strong in the conviction of the right, steadfast to endure sacrifices and brave to achieve a victory of liberty and peace...
...enemies] are at one in this: in a steadfast will and resolution that if they succeed in overcoming us Germany will be destroyed, exterminated and extinguished...
...leadership"; everywhere the lines are being drawn more sharply, and the gap between isolationist and interventionist is steadily and alarmingly widening. Max Lerner, who is usually pretty well up on those things, has estimated that 25 per cent of the people are rabid interventionists, 25 per cent are steadfast isolationists, and 50 per cent are in the middle, but following the main trends of the Roosevelt foreign policy...
Inveighing against warmongers, he suddenly interjected: "Let me say at once that President Roosevelt has held steadfast to his promise not to send 'our Army, Navy, or air forces to fight in foreign lands outside America except in case of attack.' " Such remarks, added to the President's apparent lack of urgency about the defense program, the impression that visitors have lately received in talking to him, have bolstered rumors that have made both interventionists and isolationists ask: Does the President mean to keep the U.S. out of war no matter what happens to Britain? Does...