Word: stubborn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was not a new Truman. At 64, he was the same brisk, gregarious, stubborn, artless man, the fanatically loyal friend who flew from Washington to attend the funeral of Boss Tom Pendergast, the same engaging Missourian who tripped over his academic gown and blurted: "Whups! I forgot to pull up my dress." Home in Independence for Christmas last week, Harry Truman tramped through the familiar streets with careless informality, dropped in on his friends, doffed his hat to neighbors. Like any well-trained husband, he carefully knocked the snow off his boots before going into the house...
Neither in Greece nor anywhere else are there many men as stubborn and courageous as George and Anastasios Magalios. Their fate is a small proof that the U.S. will need to give more than "economic rehabilitation" to stop Communism in Greece...
Bits & Pieces. Vergara's stubborn silence blocked full inquiry into the biggest question of all: Who, if anyone, had inspired and financed him? But from bits & pieces, fitted together, Prosecutor José Nogues bluntly tagged the plot "Made in Argentina." Said he: "The subversive movement . . . was inspired from Argentina and intimately synchronized with similar movements in other Latin American countries...
Chinese respected the Gimo's indomitable will, his stubborn national pride, but they had a sharp sense, that he-and they -had failed. One measure of that failure, some of them felt, was the performance of Chiang's own Whampoa Academy generals. Said one Chinese bitterly last week: "They are old and tired; in 20 years they have passed from the sunrise to the sunset." Some had turned carpetbagger. In one instance, soldiers defending Mukden watched a planeload of payday currency signed over to an army general and flown back to his bank in Shanghai. The government...
...Stubborn in a different way is the Hayes Bick, which at last report was still clinging to its Thanksgiving pumpkin and cornucopia...