Word: stubborn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Cong called "Mr. Trouble," apparently because he had made several attempts at escape and remained utterly defiant of his captors. Some in Saigon thought that Rowe was Mr. Trouble. In 1967, a Viet Cong defector who had seen Rowe in a prison camp grudgingly characterized him as "stubborn, sneaky and very smart." At that time, the defector reported, Rowe was with five other Americans. Two of them later died, two were freed in late 1967, and one was executed in retribution for the execution of a Viet Cong...
...President Nguyen Van Thieu must go. "If the [Saigon] Administration does not change its policy," declared N.L.F. Spokesman Tran Hoai Nam, "it will be overthrown by the people." The implication was that Thieu's government might be an acceptable negotiating partner if it softened its equally stubborn nonrecognition of the N.L.F...
There just was not enough of Dale Dover to go around last night as Boston College's basketball team, led by captain Terry Driscoll's 35 points and 21 rebounds, overcame the stubborn Crimson, 91-76, at Roberts Center. It was Harvard's third loss in four starts...
...mother described him once as "an intensely religious man, but he shuns even the restrained rituals of the faith. I am sure other Quakers understand my son. They know why he has been the center of so many controversies. Quakers are gentle and tolerant people, but they are also stubborn in defending their opinions and high-minded in pursuing their ideals...
...chooses to be stubborn, the Justice Department can still carry the case to the Supreme Court, provided it files an appeal by next week. Still pending before the ICC are eleven other consolidation proposals. They date all the way back...