Word: steadfastness
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...observer was discussing the current national scene last night in his suite at Leverett House. Here for the fall term as a research professor in Government, Raymond Aron is best known in this country as a chronicler of the Fifth Republic, in such books as the recently translated France, Steadfast and Changing...
...into law: civil rights legislation, statehood for Alaska and Hawaii, construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway, relinquishment of federal claims to control of the tidelands. As a freshman Congressman, Nixon supported Harry Truman's program of aid to Communist-menaced Greece and Turkey, and he has remained a steadfast backer of foreign...
...famous "May 13" army-settler revolt in Algiers two years ago, sad-eyed General Raoul Salan, army commander in Algeria, was the first to cry "Vive De Gaulle" to the unruly crowd from his Algiers balcony. For months, Salan was grimly steadfast as De Gaulle went on to promise Algerians a referendum offering three choices, including independence. Two weeks ago, Salan had enough. "No one," he said defiantly, has a right "to decide to give up a portion of territory under French sovereignty, above all in Algeria." The colons and right-wing ultras of Algiers, hailed Salan as their...
Korea: The turncoats were steadfast. They refused to give anything except their name, rank and the exact position of their unit...
...Emperor Caligula made his favorite horse a consul," and the independent-conservative Spectator, far from disagreeing, called the comparison "apt" and added: "The Earl of Home at his best has shown signs of equine intelligence." The object of all this objurgation is one of unflappable Mac's most steadfast supporters and closest confidants. Called "Gentle Alec" by his friends, tall, tweedy Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, 57, belongs to that diminishing number of landed Britons who go into politics as an inherited duty. His ancestors were border lairds who fought alternately for the English and the Scots. His nephew, Robin...