Word: stubborn
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...West Point. For a time he attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology with the vague idea of becoming an engineer. The Boltz family business was fine Havana cigars, and in 1914 they sent Robert to work in the family plants in Cuba and Tampa. He was 27, headstrong and stubborn, and he thought he had a new system of cigar making. Two years later the business was busted...
...Stubborn Turks. As Russia goes, so goes Turkey. Turkey would scarcely dare to stand alone. The surprising firmness of Turkey last week may have been an indirect clue to Russia's mood. Just after German Ambassador Franz von Papen returned to Ankara with German "offers," the Turkish Government clamped martial law upon the land, ordered blackouts, revised train schedules, declared restrictions on automobile travel. The Istanbul newspaper Yeni Sabah challenged: "We do not recognize the German right to hand us an ultimatum. Germany can speak to us only as equals...
Harry Cross of the New York Herald Tribune: "The Charles River Power Company rushed into the Bowl and give a demonstration of high voltage football. Yale's defense was stubborn to the point of embarrassing, but the Elis couldn't keep the wires crossed forever. The Blue forwards tried to charge into the Crimson with the same gusto which upset the co-ordination and continuity of Carl Snavely's gridiron chef d'oeuvre, but they were met by an even more determined Harvard forward wall...
Chamberlain was too stubborn to quit as Prime Minister until he was forced to quit, too stubborn to quit the Government then. His last months were bitter. The cancer that gnawed at his vitals was a part of his personal feud with Hitler, and like most people who have that disease he clung to life while hating it. When it became clear that his operation had not saved his life for long, he resigned from the Cabinet at last...
Next spoke Defense Attorney Fred A. Ironside Jr. Howard Hopson, said Mr. Ironside, had always been a "stubborn and contentious" fighter. Unable to get used to the social idea of the Government's utility legislation and obsessed by the desire to do a good job, he fought for what he thought to be right, took all criticisms to heart. Throughout his attorney's remarks, Howard Hopson moaned and groaned...