Word: headstrong
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After five grim years, McCarthy (but not her brothers) is rescued by her maternal grandparents and taken to live once again in Seattle. Her new home is spacious and comfortable. Her guardians make gentle attempts to keep the headstrong girl in check: "My grandmother had statutory ages for everything, sixteen for boys, fourteen for real, non-ribbed silk stockings, fifteen perhaps for lipstick." These restrictions do not keep Mary from losing her virginity during her sophomore year in high school...
...seized power from Benazir's father, Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and two years later allowed Bhutto to be executed following his conviction on charges of conspiracy to murder an opposition politician. Benazir quickly demonstrated that she possesses her father's courage and political flair, as well as his headstrong nature. Pakistanis rallied to her by the hundreds of thousands. The next move, in a country whose nearly 40-year political history has been a tug-of-war between the generals and the politicians, is likely to be an effort by Benazir, through strikes and mass demonstrations, to step...
John Jobes vividly remembers the day in 1971 when he first met his future wife Nancy. Both were high school students in Parsippany, N.J. "She was a very independent, headstrong, loving person," he recalls. They married a few years after graduation, when John was working as a machinist and Nancy as a lab technician. Then six years ago, while she was pregnant with their first child, Nancy was injured in a traffic accident; several bones were broken, and the baby was lost. "She was a real tiger and a real fighter," John recalls, but her struggle to recover ended abruptly...
...matters ranging from Israeli Cabinet decisions to congressional votes on the American budget. In particular, Ronald Reagan comes out of the crisis enjoying a new lift in public support and praise from some of his sharpest critics, who confessed that in this case at least he was not the headstrong hawk they had so long feared. Reagan's image as a statesman was further burnished last week by Moscow's agreement to a summit conference between him and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, to be held Nov. 19 and 20 in Geneva (see WORLD). But the President also faces the equally...
...course, little in Shakespeare is that simple-mindedly didactic, and many productions of Taming play up the irony of Kate's position, treating her surrender as a victory of sarcasm or love or something else. But director of this play as an unbridled assault of headstrong machismo against virtuous female independence, and tries "to image a Katherina who is truly made submissive, who really relinquishes her will, who is just as broken as nay hunting falcon or busted bronce...