Word: persistent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaking in Manhattan last week, Commerce Secretary Sinclair ("Sinny") Weeks, who seems to persist in casting himself as spokesman for the reactionary minority of business leaders, took a highly protectionist position on tariff policy.* What he said ran counter to the Administration's efforts to reduce trade barriers...
...been said that these scandals should have been hushed, lest they impair the football community's morale for the Yale game. The real danger lies in secrecy, for in secrecy commercialized attitudes and practices could persist and grow into bigger, more damaging scandals. We believe the football community is true enough to its traditions to cleanse itself of these attitudes and practices without any effect on its morale. It needs only a pressure from the Administration and the other students to do so quickly. There can be no sanction to any student making a profit out of Harvard football...
...eighth anniversary of the United Nations, Prime Minister Daniel Malan's Nationalist Party warned last week that South Africa will walk out of the U.N. if India and other Asia-African nations persist in bringing up motions to condemn South Africa's bitter apartheid (racial segregation). Said Malan: "The U.N. is a failure, a cancer eating at the peace and tranquillity of the world. Unless it is radically reformed, it should disappear from the face of the world...
...character is his fate, Augie believes, and "this fate, or what he settles for, is also his character." The real battle, unseen from the outside, is internal, where "you labor, you wage and combat, settle scores, remember insults, fight, reply, deny, blab, denounce, triumph, outwit, overcome, vindicate, cry, persist, absolve, die and rise again. All by yourself! Where is everybody? Inside your breast and skin...
...must persist in reporting such trivia, put it in Sport...