Word: doggedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gandhi's political enemies owed much of their success to the pertinacity of V.P. Singh, India's new Prime Minister. The unassuming Singh, 58, served in Indira's governments and as Minister of Finance and Defense under Rajiv, but in 1987 he resigned, claiming that he had been blocked in...
The President, who has been dogged by the "wimp factor," did not back his alma-mater Yale about, which will take to the gridiron today against its traditional cold war rivals from Harvard.
The minute the ban was lifted, they were on the move again. At midnight last Tuesday East Germans regained the right to travel to Czechoslovakia that had been taken from them a month ago. Within days more than 8,000 had crossed the border, and by the weekend Czechoslovakia flung...
When Oakland Mayor Lionel Wilson declared that there could be no more survivors in the fallen freeway, dogged rescue crews ignored him and searched on. For a brief moment on Wednesday, their determination seemed to pay off when a faint voice was heard in the rubble. But it turned out...
But this latest, anonymous death may be more symbolic of the violence that has dogged the city in recent months.