Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Died. Adam Rapacki, 60, Polish Foreign Minister from 1956 to 1968, proposer of the "Rapacki Plan" for a nuclear-free zone in Central Europe; of a heart attack; in Warsaw. First suggested in 1957, the Rapacki Plan would have banned the installation of nuclear weapons in an area encompassing Poland, Czechoslovakia and East and West Germany. The Western powers rejected the idea for lack of adequate guarantees and on the grounds that a nuclear shield in West Germany was essential against the Soviet bloc's preponderance of conventional arms...
Only rarely does Adam Walinsky publicly display the toughness that won him the sobriquet "Adamant Adam" while he was Robert Kennedy's premier speechwriter. But when a drunk at a construction site baited the dovish Walinsky about his feelings for "the boys in Viet Nam," the questioner got a snarling reply: "They're too damn good to die there...
Tiger center halfback Laszlow Adam hit the crossbar twice and center Louie Difoe once. "We outclassed them on the field," Princeton coach Jack Volz said. His squad could win against any Ivy team this fall...
...absurdity and pathos of old-line Faculty members caught in the crunch of new Faculty politics is no better illustrated than in a confrontation last winter between Adam Yarmolinsky, professor of Law, and Ewart Guinier, chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department, before the Nieman Fellows...
...Adam Yarmolinsky, Harvard University Professor of Law and President Kennedy's advisor...