Word: headstrong
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...many of the King's subjects the King's golf is something to groan over rather than cheer about. It opens a revealing little window on the controversial, headstrong personality whose possible return to the throne has put the Kingdom of the Belgians in a constitutional dither and a cabinet deadlock...
Athens had long suspected that something was going to happen to headstrong Markos. Nearly a year ago, government intelligence officers got hold of a letter purported to have been written by Markos to Zachariades, in which he criticized not only the Balkan satellites but Moscow itself...
Away from the Ruined. Six years before, Asa had been headstrong enough to throw up a civil service job in Baltimore, taking his chances in Manhattan. He had been lucky to land the good job that he still held. Allbee had been a chance friend of the period when he was job hunting. One of his vain interviews had been with Allbee's boss, who had been rude to him and to whom he had been rude in return. Now he learns that Allbee had been fired soon afterward and holds him responsible. Allbee has it figured out that...
...feminine curves on international espionage. In Above Suspicion and Assignment in Brittany, she created a creepy, spy-laden atmosphere where even secret agents feared to tread. In her latest novel, Friends and Lovers, she has abandoned the thriller for a ladies' magazine romance. Chief attraction: a headstrong Scottish lassie with her heart in the Highlands. She burns the torch for a callow young Oxonian, but its glow is no more than a soulless fluorescence, shedding little light, no heat...
...Conference will heal some old sores, may reopen others. Scheduled for war's end, the conference was summarily torpedoed a year ago by headstrong Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden on the ground that the U.S. had no business sitting down at the same table with Argentina. The scorching, inside battle that Braden's bull-in-china-shop action precipitated among U.S. diplomats made confusion of the U.S.'s Latin American policy, which was not too clear in the first place. Now that Braden and ex-Ambassador George Messersmith, his chief antagonist, are out, and the Administration...