Word: stubborn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...named W.A.R. Goodwin came to serve as pastor at Williamsburg's Bruton Parish Church. Over the slow years of his pastorate, he walked much, looked long, thought constantly about the town's past and realized that behind the Victorian storefronts of the day there still survived the stubborn structure of the old town, along with a hard core of dilapidated but still sound colonial houses...
Walter E. Washington, LL.D., mayor of Washington, D.C. As a walking mayor, going to the streets where the action is, he has shown deep concern for the difficult and stubborn problems of the city's people...
Johnson finally knocked the pistol out of the stubborn hand. "Why did you do it?" he screamed. "I can explain! Let me explain!" cried the swarthy man, now the captive of the two black athletes and spread-eagled on the counter. Several R.F.K. supporters tried to kill the man with their hands. Johnson and Grier fended them off. Someone had the presence of mind to shout: "Let's not have another Oswald!" Johnson pocketed...
...there is also a little of the cynical, skeptical Voltaire in the Frenchman?and a lot of the stubborn, even violent individualist. Smug paternalism at home did not wear nearly so well as posturing abroad. The Gaullist panoply gradually began to enshadow and constrict every aspect of French life, from politics to morals, painting to fashion. The rhythm of French existence perceptibly altered. Hints of ennui crept in?and boredom has always been underrated as a revolutionary force. Paris was no longer the most richly alive city in Europe. Looking beneath the glittering surface of Gaullist France as long...
...Paris talks were not the only slow, stubborn peace negotiations going on in the world last week...