Word: steadfastness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...week's crop of eager joiners would probably not be the last. These were no surprise candidates. Hungary has long been the steadfast sycophant of Germany. She was the first to climb aboard the Anti-Comintern Pact, and she was the first to gain territories with the help of the Axis. Rumania, at whose expense the more recent gains were made, joined because she had to. There were some 15,000 German soldiers garrisoned in Rumania last week as a grim guarantee of friendship. Most people thought of Slovakia as part of Greater Germany (actually the area...
Then Hopkins & Co. encountered some thing they could not stop or divert. To the platform went a shrunken, tottery little oldster, 82-year-old Carter Glass of Virginia, a man of vinegar aspect, of high conviction, a man of law and principle, long since outmoded but steadfast in his faith in tradition's rock...
Merrill, besides being a steadfast crew supporter, was a prominent Boston newspaperman and 25 years back a Cambridge city official. He used to watch every race from his traditional chair in the shade of the Red Top boat house...
...well-built, brunette daughter a screen contract, which the latter calls just "silly." Letters from all parts of the country flock in to this young lady, approving or disapproving of her mother's action, or just plain asking for a date. But Gloria and her family remain steadfast in their opinions, and are thankful that "that evil person" will not be instructing young New Yorkers along the paths of "moral maladjustment" next year...
...year ahead of her class. She was an avid reader of fiction, newspapers, crime stories. She told this nightmare tale with stupendous composure. Throughout her questioning, she stuck to her story, said finally: "I'd like to have some soup and a piece of lemon cream pie." Steadfast in his belief that Chloe was telling the truth was her stricken father...