Word: loyalize
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...Reagan. On the night of his own nomination, Bush kept his speech phenomenally short (five minutes), remarking toward the close: "This is Ronald Reagan's night. He is the man whom you and the American people are waiting to hear." And if the ticket wins? Bush would be absolutely loyal. He told TIME last week: "The most important thing is to have a Vice President that the President is comfortable with. The worst thing would be to have a Vice President whom he would have to look at over his shoulder to make sure he wasn't going to push...
...chance to press demands for a ruthless purge of the armed forces-a convenient means of gaining control over the military at the expense of the President, who is commander in chief of the armed forces. Denouncing what he called the mullahs' "opportunistic gestures," Banisadr pointed out that loyal military personnel had discovered the conspiracy in their own midst and had played the most important role in thwarting...
...being ousted as co-chairman of the Republican National Committee because of her praise of John Anderson, accused the party of suffering from an "internal sickness" and warned that it might lose the election. Remarked an irritated Reagan: "Mary Crisp should look to herself and see how loyal she has been to the Republican Party." He added: "I don't think this ERA is a live-or-die issue...
...those particular instances, the dangers of loyalty were largely professional. When wider issues are at stake, however, a loyal friend may be a traitor to the rest of us. E.M. Forster, who wrote a moving, if porous, defense of personal loyalty in 1939, of all years, declared: "If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country." Forster then went on to concede that his viewpoint might be shocking and called upon Dante for support, arguing that Dante placed "Brutus and Cassius in the lowest circle...
...England for the Soviet Union. Not that Forster would have approved of Philby or Burgess; the event merely shows that personal loyalty can sound prettier than it is. In The Third Man, Graham Greene created a wholly honest hero, honesty being a tenet of good friendship, who is a loyal friend to an evil man. In the end, Holly Martins betrays the child-murderer Harry Lime because he comes to value the friendship of mankind, or, more abstractly, the friendship of doing right, over that of a single person. That, too, takes guts. Huck Finn, who had both...