Word: hardheadedness
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*Estimated increase during the Eisenhower era, 1953-60: 12%. *Whether or not the tag helped Smith, it did help Roosevelt: he became known as the man who called Al Smith the Happy Warrior. But Roosevelt deserved little credit. The Wordsworth couplet (from the poem that was read at Grover Cleveland...
This notion is beginning to dawn even on hardheaded Broadway professionals as they seek to explain the facts: of 45 productions that have opened on Broadway since last autumn, 30 have already closed, half of them after scarcely a week. It is the most disastrous season within memory, not only...
But if the new dimension of nuclear horror makes the search for peace through disarmament more urgent than ever, it has not made the lessons of history obso lete. Precisely because a single H-bomb can demolish a great city, a stock of H-bombs secreted in the vast expanses...
U.S. Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The young and idealistic revolutionary hero in an unnamed country almost sells out to the terrorism of his hardheaded boss. But his old college prof comes along just in time to remind him that the tactics they planned in the classroom were cleaner...
"What disengagement means is that the whole attempt to create a counterforce [in Europe] to the Soviet force is ended. We cannot create such a counterforce with ground forces in Europe and in the U.S. separated by the Atlantic Ocean . . . Khrushchev says, 'This is a matter on which a...