Word: stubborn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This'll Make You Whistle (Cam & McLane). British musical comedy, directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Jack Buchanan, chiefly noteworthy for a stubborn, Cockney prankishness calculated to cause U. S. audiences not to whistle but to squirm...
...axiomatic that in any community the attitudes of its outstanding members are likely to color the attitudes and morals of most of the community. The essence of the repeated indications, from the mouths of witnesses, of a stubborn indifference to the public responsibility of the Exchange as a basic characteristic of the old order of Exchange thinking stands starkly revealed in the testimony of Thomas W. Lamont...
...most delicate and stubborn surgical problems is the relief of pain in childbirth. Injection of synthetic, cocaine-like drugs, such as novocain and procaine, into the canal of the spinal cord is objectionable because such injections act on the cord and brain, interfere with the heart. Anesthetics such as ether and nitrous oxide (laughing gas) are harmful because they cause a deficiency of oxygen in the blood streams of mother and child...
...recent practices the team has shown a stubborn resistance to the varsity's offensive plays, which shows that the defensive play is reaching a high point of development. It is only recently, however, that the team has had an opportunity to form an attack. It is for this reason that the tentative game scheduled for last week had to be cancelled...
...this mixed force of many tongues was attributed several heroic defenses. The brigades' arrival at Madrid in November 1936 and their stubborn resistance in the Casa del Campo outside Madrid, probably gave Leftist General José Miaja enough time to organize his defenses to prevent the city's capture by Generalissimo Francisco Franco. They appeared later in the successful halt of the Rightist Jarama River drive and in the panicky rout of Italian Fascist troops in the Battle of Brihuega, on the Guadalajara Road...