Word: diehard
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Grant completed, but Captain Sam Grant was a fine, thorough book, the best job ever done on Grant's early years. Another big job done with care and spirit was Margaret Coit's John C. Calhoun: American Portrait, a sympathetic and fair study of the great diehard South Carolinian. Catherine Drinker Bowen put too much fictional gloss on solid John Adams and the American Revolution, but it was the first biography to make him seem wholly human. Irving Brant finished the third volume of his massive James Madison, and William Harlan Hale wrote a fresh, readable Horace Greeley...
...pulled out of Korea and had washed its hands of Formosa, where Chiang Kai-shek's diehard Nationalists prepared their last stand. Mao's army, harassed by Chiang's naval & air blockade, stood poised for an invasion. Then Stalin's North Koreans moved across the 38th parallel. In a dramatic turnabout of policy, the American eagle soared from its lackadaisical perch...
...Chinese agreed to teach the Malays business know-how, through Chinese-financed training programs, Chinese-Malay companies and cooperatives. They rallied to the idea of a "political-economic partnership in which Chinese do not hate Malays and Malays do their share of work." But Dato Onn ran into diehard opposition from his own U.M.N.O. He resigned from the organization, stepped up his barnstorming throughout the peninsula. The U.M.N.O. recently convened again, re-elected Dato Onn as head, endorsed his program. Last week legislation was under way in the Federation Legislative Council to widen the Chinese franchise...
...match for the soldiers. Hundreds of Nationalists were rounded up and imprisoned. By the end of the second day, Governor Munoz could report that Puerto Rico's worst uprising since the U.S. took over the island from Spain in 1898 seemed well under control. When police cornered diehard Nationalist Chief Pedro Albizu Campos, 59, in his San Juan headquarters, Governor Mufioz Marin ordered the besiegers to move cautiously. He wanted to cast no cloak of martyrdom over the Nationalists' hero...
...that point, even Puerto Rican police had no real conception of the Nationalists' full, fanatic plans. They had begun to look on sickly, yanqui-hating Pedro Albizu Campos as no more than a noisy reminder of the days when "independence" was the rallying cry of all diehard Caribbean extremists. The son of a wealthy Spanish sugar merchant and his father's Negro mistress, he had gone to Harvard ('16), returned to Puerto Rico embittered by a World War I hitch in a Puerto Rican Negro regiment...