Word: stubbornly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first disobedience in failing to take a new job at Worcester's College of the Holy Cross. And in spite of Archbishop Cushing's decree, the Feeney school of doctrine was still going full blast. "The Archbishop said nothing about closing St. Benedict Center School" explained stubborn Jesuit Feeney...
Like a hoarse echo from the prewar days, Indiana's stubborn William Jenner leaned against his back-row desk in the Senate chamber last week and shouted that the time had come for the U.S. to get out of Europe and stay out. "Spending in Europe is no longer needed," he cried. "This so-called bipartisan foreign policy . . . leaves the Republican Party and the American taxpayer holding...
...isobutane had not exploded. Billy lay there, like a man listening to the tick of a time bomb, as passersby, police and firemen pried, pushed and wrenched at the stubborn steel. Then suddenly, with a great, soft whoosh, flames burst from the tanks, lashed fiercely at the faces of four rescuers...
...cholera morbus" (widespread intestinal inflammation) and dropsy. From another duel he had an open wound in his left arm; doctors wanted to amputate, but he refused and trusted in a poultice of slippery elm (still used in lozenges for sore throat). He kept the arm, but later developed osteomyelitis (stubborn infection of the bone). The infections from the bullets, Diagnostician Gardner thinks, brought on amyloidosis (a waxy degeneration of body tissues). Jackson reached Washington after his first election as President "62 years old, racked with pain, fainting from weakness." Concludes Researcher Gardner: "No structure ever endured under greater handicaps than...
...Stalin's first assignments from Lenin was to weld together the bickering nationalities of the Caucasus, and it was then that Mikoyan became his henchman. In this stubborn problem, Mikoyan demonstrated that he could be politic, patient, persuasive and in a pinch-like all Bolsheviks-utterly merciless...