Word: stubborn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enthusiastic over her story, but his enthusiasm was wasted. King Features Syndicate, which distributes Winchell's work, spent two days thinking about it, then flatly rejected Miss Hellman's guest column. Hearst editors condemned her account as Loyalist propaganda and brushed aside Host Winchell's stubborn defense of his guest. Two days later the Hearst New York Journal and American favored ex-Japanese Ambassador W. Cameron Forbes with a big headline: "EX-ENVOY FORBES HAILS FRANCO RULE-People Happy and Have Plenty in Nationalist Spain, He Says...
...hailed and it speeds into position, driven by a weazened little man who cannot conceal his delight at being one of the puller-downers. An extension of the cable is tied to his bumper and presently the two Macks, looking like two obstreperous elephants, are tugging away at the stubborn wall. Heave, Heave. And HEAVE. The wall sways out toward the street and the spectators shrink back. The truck's wheels spin in a last yank...
Although the sentimental novels of J. B. Priestley have contradicted the stock picture of Yorkshiremen as the most stubborn, blunt-speaking cranky-wits going, the Yorkshire novels of Storm Jameson have usually fitted the picture very well. In The Moon is Making, a pre-War family chronicle, she shows as stubborn and crotchety a collection of Yorkshiremen as ever stumped. But also among them is one who comes near to being a stubborn Yorkshire saint...
...Brooklyn Eagle strike, first test of the Newspaper Guild's strength against a New York City daily, ended last week in what appeared to be a double knockout. At least both sides were groggy from breaking their hands on each other in over three months of stubborn fighting...
...primitive Physarum has extraordinary qualities of high resistance to X-ray bombardments and emanations from radium, it resembles the cells of stubborn cancers called fibrosarcomas...