Word: steadfastness
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...calls up Mikey, asks him to bring cigarettes, then won't let him in the door. Mikey talks his way inside, gets milk and cream for Nicky's perforated ulcer, says he'll help him out of town. Nicky is wary, but Mikey remains steadfast. It is the best way to keep track of Nicky and make sure that he finally meets up with the fat guy who carries a pistol in a brown paper...
Even more disturbing has been the official American response to evidence of the South Korean scandal. While State Department officials acknowledge that relations with South Korea have been severely strained by these revelations, they are quick to publicly assure President Park of America's steadfast military commitment. Concern about public support for this commitment has probably contributed to the delay of the official investigation. Suspicions of South Korean covert activities have existed for a decade and tangible evidence has been in the possession of American officials for at least four years. And yet these officials have only recently gathered...
...lost the use of his left arm when hit by enemy fire on Okinawa), Douglas traveled to Washington in 1949 as the junior Senator from Illinois. Many of the causes he campaigned for-civil rights, truth in lending, tax reform, Medicaid, campaign finance reform-have since become law. His steadfast support of the Viet Nam War contributed to his defeat by Republican Charles Percy...
...rendition of the national anthem. After the introductions, replete with cart-wheeling cheerleaders, Diehl briskly steps into the centercourt circle, gives the ball an authoritative toss, and sets out on his six-mile trek with a sure stride and stony-faced impenetrability that makes his profession the lodestar of steadfast control and lockjawed authority in college basketball, while the festooned NBC logos, pied banners, and roar of "Go, Hoyas go" from the Georgetown faithful symbolize all that is hoopla and froth in the big time...
This follows in the New Hampshire tradition of "political" primaries, of William Loeb, the kike-teaser, the publisher who turned steadfast Edmund Muskie into a tear-filled bundle of Ibogaine-scotted nerves on a flatbed truck in 1972. But this primary is greater than William Loeb, who incidentally has gone so far to remove his image of slander-mongerer as to publish Democratic candidates' press releases largely uncut and unedited. The 1976 primary's rhetoric is too thick, fast and furious for Loeb to pin any one candidate down--although it is to Birch Bayh's credit that...