Word: loyalize
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...authorities were ill positioned to impose a truce; a sense of powerlessness was endemic. Many admitted being as shocked as the rest of the world by Adzic's bellicose statement and by the dispatch of the menacing column toward Croatia's border. Asked if he thought Adzic was a loyal supporter of the federal government, Prime Minister Ante Markovic retorted, "I don't know, you'll have to ask him. Why are you asking...
...Germany's political, intellectual, military and bureaucratic elite. Now reborn as the Party of Democratic Socialism, it has a scant 250,000 adherents, the majority of them former communist functionaries who, says one observer, "cannot believe they can hang up the socialist dream like a soiled coat." They remain loyal even though thousands have lost their jobs because of what Germans call Ausgrenzung, or discrimination against those linked to the communist hierarchy or the Stasi...
...wear such homely shoes, she persisted by selling them mostly through health-food stores. Before long, they became an essential part of the hip uniform of the '70s. But unlike some other foot-friendly footwear of that era (remember Earth shoes?), they never really went away. Birkenstock kept its loyal following and diversified by bringing out men's and children's models...
...called the FBI and told them to get me the hell out. I was scared to death. I was shakin'. I blame Scarfo. He's the guy who wanted to kill me. I'm 55 years old, and all my life I was a stand-up guy. I was loyal; I killed for the guy; I brought him millions of dollars. There's no way I was ever gonna turn. It never even entered my mind. What big sin did I commit? I got arrested. I was always prepared to go to jail. I figured I was facing...
...most veterans, these are times for quieter ceremonies: the thanks for loyal neighbors and friends, for care packages, for letters; the new appreciation of the simplest freedoms; and the chance to put behind them a war that came by surprise, and mercifully ended before it could create a new generation of martyrs. It is because their sons and daughters were spared that people will line the streets while the soldiers pass by, but that should not be mistaken for gloating, or amnesia, or indifference to the suffering that continues in the shadow...