Word: loyalize
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...time my parents reacted to Blankie's disappearance as any well-restrained, calm and rational parents would. They bought approximately 157 different blankets/sheets/towels costing more than $2000 and tried to convince me that each was the real Blankie. But I stayed loyal and rejoiced when Blankie was found, soiled but untorn...
Leaving the U.S., Hussein canceled a visit to Britain and returned home. He had cause for concern. Like Hussein, most of the rioters were Bedouins and thus had been considered his most loyal subjects...
...rules of engagement between the new President and the Democratic Congress. Unlike Ronald Reagan, who blamed Capitol Hill for everything but the depletion of the ozone layer, Bush by temperament and political calculation seems determined to avoid unnecessary and melodramatic showdowns. So far, the President has behaved like a loyal member of the congressional alumni association who wants to prove that he is still one of the guys despite his fancy new digs on Pennsylvania Avenue. Bush intends to block ambitious Democratic schemes to mandate that business provide such universal benefits as health insurance, but he is prepared to negotiate...
...hoping for a bloodletting, for atrocities and cruelties with all the 'ancient attributes': tyranny, the iron fist, a threatening master, army order. Already from every quarter appeals are heard to curtail Ogonyok editor Vitali Korotich; he irritates them more than anything else, and now the hosts of the 'loyal and prudent' are marching on him . . . No matter what those who are optimistic about perestroika say to you -- the situation is very grave, and it's a dreadful time to live, an enormous stock of malice has accumulated, oceans of worthless money, the fury of poverty, hunger and homelessness, of ethnic...
...best of the "classicists" was Sironi, whose reputation as an artist has badly suffered from his devotion to Fascism: he stayed loyal to Mussolini right through to 1943. The figure on horseback in The White Horse and the Pier, 1920-22, draws on Italy's long history of equestrian hero images and may refer to the Duce. Nevertheless, as painting, Sironi's dark, emphatically delineated compositions, with their massive figures and Brunelleschian weight of architecture, are often quite superb, a reminder that you cannot necessarily judge an artist by his or her political ideology...