Word: stubborn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eakins brought his fullest powers. From the thoughtful, chin-in-hand pose and the bookish sophistication of the pincenez to the compassion, intelligence and ever-so-subtle weakness spelled in the cleric's features, Eakins crystallized the peculiar humanity of the dedicated priest -and vindicated his own lonely, stubborn loyalty to life...
...carping, San Francisco's Mayor Joseph Alioto probably spoke for everyone except the most stubborn critics of the U.S., both at home and abroad, when he composed these lines for an ecumenical service in Grace Cathedral, atop Nob Hill...
Historians have been equally unkind, characterizing him as neurotically irresolute at some times and unrealistically stubborn at others. Some attribute his firm anticolonial policy during the American Revolution to outright madness. The findings of Drs. Macalpine and Hunter require a modification of this view to take his physical illness into account. The new evidence may also explain the mysterious deaths of several of his ancestors and collateral relatives, including James I's son Henry and George's sister Caroline Matilda, Queen of Denmark and Norway. Both were rumored to have been poisoned by close relatives. Both actually...
...liver disease known as hepatitis is a stubborn and increasingly common ailment. Infectious hepatitis, usually contracted from contaminated food or water, affected an estimated 100,000 people last year. The more virulent se rum hepatitis, which is transmitted by contaminated blood transfusions and in adequately sterilized hypodermic needles, affected 5,000. At least 1,000 died from the two forms. Unable to identify the guilty virus, doctors could neither prevent the disease nor offer effective treatment. But now, as a result of a complex bit of medical detective work, researchers have isolated what appears to be the hepatitis virus...
...then, the pressure of a coalition of common sense had proved too much for Dr. William McCord, director of the Medical College Complex and a stubborn opponent of union recognition. Governor Robert McNair had long been demanding a peaceful conclusion. The local business community wanted an agreement, and the Nixon Administration sought to produce an acceptable formula. Then, at the urging of federal mediators and a newly formed citizens committee, talks began. They featured an interesting extra ingredient. In the middle of one session, Dr. McCord was summoned to take a telephone call from White House Aide Harry Dent, former...