Word: steadfastness
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...given honorable discharges shortly after the State Minimum Wage Board had ordered Harvard to raise their wages from 35 to 37 cents an hour was enough to set off a barrage of criticism in the press. The Crimson followed suit, angered by the firings and by the Administration's steadfast refusal to speak to reporters. (A year later, The Crimson would editorially express pleased surprise at the fact that Mr. Lowell had agreed to talk to reporters about his House Plan.) In fact, although The Crimson repeatedly expressed distress over the dismissals, it always managed to seem a bit more...
...government's steadfast refusal in court to take any compromise in order to reduce or eliminate popkin's sentence seemed to indicate that it had a definite idea of what he could provide for them, and that it was willing to wait to get it. Nevertheless, in an extremely surprising move, representatives of the U.S. Attorney's Office asked District Judge Frank J. Murray to disband the grand jury, thus automatically freeing popkin...
...with a classical tragedy, there was no turning back. By 1965, the proud, rational men had "completely lost control," and a bitter Lyndon Johnson was left to watch the Great Society come all unstuck, while only Dean Rusk remained "steadfast" and only Walt Rostow dared offer hopeful predictions "like Rasputin to a Tsar under siege...
...autobiography published in 1956, three years before she died. The life and the lady have been slicked up and toned down, in the best tradition of such tears and tinsel sagas as The Helen Morgan Story and I'll Cry Tomorrow, in which lovers are long-suffering and steadfast, agents loyal, temptation rife and facts irrelevant. Billie Holiday, an artist, deserves a far better memorial...
...board Global Flight 502, non stop from Salt Lake City to Minneapolis, are an ulcerous businessman (Ross Elliott) and his steadfast wife (Jeanne Grain); a jolly jazz musician (Roosevelt Grier); a United States Senator (Wal ter Pidgeon) and his son (Nicholas Hammond); a teeny-bopper (Susan Dey); a young wife on the verge of giving birth (Mariette Hartley); the head stewardess (Yvette Mimieux), once in love with the captain (Charlton Heston), now carrying on with the copilot (Mike Henry); and a certain Sergeant Jerome K. Weber (James Brolin), a bug-eyed benny popper who swills brandy, talks crazy and keeps...