Word: stubbornness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have not diminished in evil, but they have learned subtler arts and more refined tortures than the knife and pincers. Nobody can prove that Mindszenty was drugged or beaten. All that can be said with certainty is that Mindszenty's whole life proved he was a brave and stubborn man, a man who at every fork in his life proudly took the dangerous, uphill way; to have made such a man "recant" was a sort of miracle of evil...
Back to Garfield. Stubborn Chairman Scott fought back. To those who blamed the party's 1948 disaster on him, Scott let it be known that he had a secret weapon: recordings of telephone conversations during the campaign, in which many state leaders had been put on record as approving Dewey's campaign strategy. "Blackmail," cried his opponents. Said Scott, scrambling metaphors right & left: "Age must have its fling. The cliffhangers are making a last-ditch fight . . . My view is that the party has a choice of going back to Garfield or forward to victory." At 48, Hugh Scott...
...Pages of History. Father Molnar refers to his flock as mentally retarded and reactionary. "Hungarians," he said, "are always against something. Mindszenty was working on this theory to incite the people against the new democracy. He is a good and stubborn soldier. But he is a bad diplomat who does not know his history. How could he solve the world's ills by turning back the pages of history...
Paradoxically, Forrestal last week still held his job largely because of the attacks on him. He himself wanted to get out, but he was unwilling to go out under pressure. Harry Truman was letting him stay on, at least a little longer, because the President also gets stubborn under pressure...
Students disliked him from the start. He was a mousy but stubborn man who regarded music, athletics and other extracurricular activities as worthless educational frills. When the school board chose him as superintendent and principal of the Twinsburg township school in northeastern Ohio, some parents protested. But Glen L. Powell, 51-the town's fourth superintendent in six years-was just the sort of man old-fashioned Twinsburgers on the school board had been looking...