Word: headstrong
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Like her Uncle David, the Duke of Windsor, Elizabeth loves horses (she rides superbly), racing (if possible, she never misses a race when the royal stable is entered), swing music, nightclubs, and having her own way. But Elizabeth's rebellions are those of any headstrong, well-reared child suffering an overdose of family. "I'd like a car of my own," she told a friend recently, "but there's so damn much family talk about which make I must have that I don't think I'll ever get one." Her greatest insubordination to date...
Like fighters after a 15-round draw, both sides thought that the battle for T.W.A. had gone far enough. Company President Jack Frye finally realized that T.W.A. could not get the money it needed without the cooperation of majority stockholder Howard Hughes. And headstrong Howard Hughes realized that he could not try CAB's patience much longer with his obstructionist tactics...
...indigestible plot, full of false leads and unkept promises, is like a woman's magazine serial consumed at one gulp. It begins as a romance. Miss Hepburn is a scientist's daughter-a moody, headstrong girl who doesn't quite know what she wants out of life. Then Robert Taylor, a fabulously rich airplane-parts tycoon, sweeps her off her feet...
Today his paper (circ. 37,000) is the largest in the state, outside of Milwaukee; it makes its combative editor $25,000 to $40,000 a year. Evjue's readers, like his employes, know him for a headstrong, softhearted character who can't help pouring advice and vituperation on friend & foe alike...
...enemies inside the U.A.W. included those Reuther had labeled "Communist" for following the party line, or for just disagreeing with headstrong Walter Reuther. They included, also, the union's considerable group of Communists themselves. Both groups-the real Communists and their non-Communist friends and allies-have lined up generally and are still lined up behind able, swarthy George Addes, U.A.W. secretary-treasurer...