Word: steadfastness
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...Mafia insiders; in New York City. He collaborated with such high-profile Mob informants as Joseph Valachi (The Valachi Papers, 1969), confidant to Vito Genovese, and Sammy (The Bull) Gravano (Underboss, 1997), whose testimony helped undo John Gotti. In between, Maas wrote the best-selling Serpico, about a steadfast New York City cop who exposed graft in the police ranks...
Even people who hate modern architecture--all those featureless skyscrapers bunched along heartless avenues!--can have a soft spot for Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the most steadfast Modernist of them all. In his later years, he proposed variations of the same building for every purpose. For office towers and museums, a black steel-and-glass carton. For symphony halls and convention centers? Ditto. For houses? O.K., for houses, something more domestic--a steel-and-glass carton in white. All the same, the best of what he did is still utterly beautiful. Around the lobby of the Seagram Building...
JUDGMENT AWARDED. To RICHARD BOEKEN, 56, steadfast two-pack-a-day Marlboro smoker for 40 years, found to have lung cancer in 1999; more than $3 billion in damages from cigarette maker Philip Morris; in Los Angeles. Boeken's lawyer accused Philip Morris of pushing smoking as "cool" despite its addictiveness, which he measured by recounting that his client had quashed addictions to heroin and alcohol, but couldn't quit smoking...
...Conky and the other blackguards let the steadfast Adams family be, and rushed on after the Brahmins who had fled. The lesson was: Stand your ground, and you might survive...
...fear of a deeply divided campus: we knew that our community overwhelmingly supported a living wage, but there was no telling how our classmates, professors and neighbors would react to civil disobedience. It has been an amazing thing since April 18 to witness our community come out in steadfast support of a living wage...