Word: loyalize
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Under the glare of television lights in the Rayburn Office Building, the dour former Marine described himself as a loyal public servant who became an architect of policies he did not always believe in. Yet time and again he defended the President while blaming himself for the questionable efforts to support the contras. "President Reagan's motives and direction to his subordinates throughout this enterprise has always been in keeping with the law and national values," McFarlane asserted. "I don't think he is at fault here, and if anybody...
...Belles Lettres Papers, Simmons' parting shot, should stir up the small world of gentlemanly journalism, although one might ask, How closely related is the author to his narrator? "Nobody could possibly confuse me with Frank Page," says the author. "He is loyal, wise and discreet...
...leader and fearful that his dancers are bumptious slobs. He even cuts one of his men's hair at an airport. The dancers give as good as they get. At one acrimonious dinner in Spoleto, Italy, they accuse him of cheating at cards. He is appalled. Yet they are loyal; no Taylor dancer ever departs to join a rival company, and one gain comes out of all the strife: "onstage togetherness -- a tribal unity that all audiences notice right...
Such open splits are still rare, but the new Afrikaner discontent is having its effect even on politicians loyal to Botha. Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha (no relation to the President) told an election rally this month that some of the social restrictions of apartheid are absurd. "I cannot understand," he said, "how you can stand in a lift with a black man with a toolbox in his hand, but when he puts on a suit you want nothing to do with...
...April Fool's Day surprise that still makes David Zrike fly into a rage. Like more than 15 million other Americans, Zrike, a 27-year-old partner in a New York City importing business, belongs to a frequent-flyer program that gives bonus trips to loyal airline passengers who accumulate sufficient travel miles. For two years Zrike faithfully flew on Trans World Airlines to reach the 60,000-mile mark needed for two free coach tickets to any TWA destination in the world. Then, on April 1, the airline revised its program. Now 60,000 bonus miles will earn...