Word: stubborn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nearly everyone in Washington last week expected that South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu would soon come around and abandon his stubborn refusal to participate in the expanded peace talks in Paris. But while the conflict lasted, perhaps the most ironic element in it was the way in which it demonstrated Saigon's new-found independence. The U.S. has all along labored to help create a stable constitutional government that could eventually stand on its own, a government immune to Communist charges that it is a mere puppet of the Americans. President Thieu's defiant holdout provided...
...Reconstruction times. Among those antique laws, several prohibit conspiracy to deprive any citizen of his civil rights, and last week a federal judge in Vicksburg concluded that one of man's most basic civil rights is his right to live. U.S. District Court Judge William Harold Cox, a stubborn segregationist, decided that the Ku Klux Klan, and three of its former members accused of killing a Negro, should pay damages...
...economic one. Deputy Prime Minister John McEwen, leader of the Country Party, holds that Australia year by year is "selling off a part of the farm." Gorton's Liberal government denies that, maintains that without such investment Australia would be like Mexico, Bolivia, Indonesia or the Congo, allowing stubborn national pride to strangle national interests. Still, the Liberals would like foreign investors to be less stubborn too. Gorton, who often takes an oar in one of the lifeboat teams that Aussies love, would like to see the same sort of teamwork in the economy. David Fairbairn, Minister for National...
...soccer action, Leverett downed Quincy 1-0 to set up a showdown with first-place Eliot after Eliot overcame a stubborn Dunster team 4-1. Leverett tallied first in the crucial game, but then Eliot scored three times to win 3-1. House Standings Tackle W L T PTS Leverett 6 1 1 13 Kirkland 6 2 0 12 Eliot 5 2 1 11 Dunster 4 2 2 10 Lowell 4 2 2 10 Adams 4 2 2 10 Winthrop 2 6 0 4 Quincy 1 7 0 2 Dudley...
...Bruins had three drives of seventy yards or more, but once in the third quar-were halted by the stubborn Crimson defense after earning a first down on the Harvard two-yard line. Four successive runs failed to crack the defense. Several plays later the Yardlings fumbled on their own 15 to set up Bonner's touch-down...