Word: holdout
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...hand at the tricky process of bringing buyers, sellers, property, and capital together, Zeckendorf spent five years getting his $50,000,000 project under way. Toughest job was getting control of the property, which he began to buy piecemeal soon after he got the idea. To get the holdout 10% he will either have to pay a fancy high price or get help from the city through condemnation proceedings...
...baseball magnates, counting up 18 players lost in the past two months to what they regarded as Mexican banditry, took note. Stephens was not just another second-string holdout, or a has-been. Sports columnists suggested dryly that they might up player salaries...
Died. Marshal Enrico Caviglia, 82, onetime Italian Minister of War (1919), Senator, World War I hero, holdout against Fascism (in 1943 he was rumored plotting with Marshal Badoglio to oust Mussolini); after long illness; in Finale Marina, Italy. When Italy teetered toward war in 1940, he gave Il Duce some sound, unheeded advice: "The European political leader conscious of his responsibilities will not launch his country into a war with a great nation unless he has the power of continuing it until the exhaustion of his adversary...
...viscous gumbo, fighting was reduced to patrol actions. Off Leyte's western shore, Japanese reinforcement convoys appeared and were attacked by fighter bombers from Sverdrup's new strips. Some were burned and some were sunk. Thousands of Japanese troops on their way to reinforce the stubborn, holdout garrison at Ormoc died. How many thousands, no man knew, although the communiqués offered guesstimates in bold round numbers...
...peacetime capacity: 23,500,000 tons), was capable of supplying all the Allied armies in the Low Countries, and it had been captured intact, six weeks ago. But it was useless so long as the Scheldt estuary, its outlet to the sea, was flanked by pockets of stubborn, German holdout troops. So the operation to clear the banks of the Scheldt had a triple-A priority...