Word: stubborn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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None of this mattered much to some of Eugene McCarthy's disappointed supporters, and their leader's stubborn and unorthodox refusal to endorse Humphrey fed their bitterness. For the most adamant in this group, the only hope was to organize a new party, even if it meant a Republican victory...
Tribal lines, not national boundaries, make up the true map of Black Africa. The Congo's latent disorder stems more than anything else from its stubborn attempt to throw a skein of nationhood over no fewer than 200 tribes. Even tiny Dahomey numbers more than a dozen tribes within its borders. Worse for national unity, tribalism is growing almost everywhere as a cushion against the shocks of transition into the 20th century. In Africa's multiplying ghettos, tribal "unions" or associations flourish as a kind of foreign embassy in the city for dazed tribesmen from the country. When things...
...gains to be made there were not worth the cost of antagonizing their powerful leaders, who clung to their status as favorite sons. Romney was apparently prepared to hold out indefinitely. Rhodes, who had been generally regarded as eager to be in line with the winner, remained surprisingly stubborn. Not so secretly, he wanted a Rockefeller-Reagan ticket as the strongest draw in Ohio and, despite a well-earned reputation for sagacity, held out some hope for its success. "We've really stirred things up," he said at one point. "We've turned this into an open convention...
Like everyone else, the Democratic politicians were watching Miami Beach -mostly to see how the ticket chosen by the Republicans would affect their prospects. The Democrats are bedeviled by the stubborn problems of the war abroad and strife at home, what appears to be a nationwide drift to the right, and an overwhelmingly unpopular Administration...
...even to war. Johnson's spadework for the forthcoming talks began less than two months after he took office. In January 1964 he wrote to Nikita Khrushchev, calling for talks on controlling nuclear weaponry. Ever since, he has kept after Moscow with what an aide called "enormous, stubborn persistence." During his summit meeting with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin at Glassboro, N.J., in June 1967, he urged talks on limiting the ruinously expensive development of anti-ballistic missile defenses. The Russians, then in the process of emplacing their "Galosh"* ABM system around Moscow and Leningrad, said they would think about...