Word: headstrong
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Said Jack Lewis Kraus II, counsel for the Protective Committee: "If the management continues headstrong and obdurate, if it indicates the desire to take the part of a spoiled child and refuses to play the game at all unless it can be played its way, we give that management solemn warning that no such government can continue...
...days on the floor as a straight price-fixing measure of which even its sponsors were not proud. Most of the ingenious economic principles devised by college professors and accepted by Democratic Big Business as a means of breaking the Depression at the farm were scrapped by headstrong politicians bent on giving their Congressional districts what they wanted...
...list grew from a thing of no importance to an inexplicable, spiteful terror as the San Pedro pounded into a blow off the Virginia coast. Thereafter the San Pedro became not a machine of wood and metal but a personification, headstrong and invincible, created to kill 400 people. She bucked and danced and cracked. She reduced her passengers to impotent lumps of frightened flesh. She crushed from the firm officers who commanded her all energy and initiative, leaving behind the hulls of men who only knew that they must obey Captain Clendening. She made of able Captain Clendening...
Karl Arthur was a bright young man and should have been a credit to the ministry, but he was headstrong and impulsive, and time and again mistook fanatical hunches for divine inspiration. To mortify his pride (and incidentally punish Charlotte) he married Anna, who was beautiful, but only a peasant peddler-girl. Anna was pleased as punch, and quite ready to love her handsome husband, but he wanted them to live like brother & sister. She got over that fence all right, but when she discovered Karl Arthur's platonic friendship with the organist's wife, shy Thea, Anna...
Seemingly headstrong Princess Maud had thrown away the many chances she had had to marry onto a Throne-but the Norns of Norway were busy weaving her Fate, ably assisted by foxy Edward VII. (He liked his daughter Maud as much as he disliked his daughter-in-law Mary...