Word: bullheadedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chances were that the Senate would put back some, if not all, of the cuts. The Republican compromise worked out by Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg and New York's John Foster Dulles would trim the funds for Europe to an even billion. "But," said Dulles, "there will be...
Pro & Con. His critics say he is a confirmed fence-straddler who rides the donkey and the elephant at the same time, a phony liberal who proposes social reforms with one hand and fails to push them through with the other, a bullheaded, plodding mediocrity who never says or does...
Under the "bullheaded premier" Wang Anshih, this took the form of state capitalist enterprises which wrecked small business, taxes which deprived farmers of their land and a totalitarian form of military conscription. Su fought them all, with varying success. Among his achievements was the founding of the first public hospital...
From there until the weekend, Inquisitor Ferguson struggled with his bullheaded, shrewd, obstreperous witness. On his part, Planemaker Hughes put on a fancy performance in self-advancement, the sum of which was that, in effect, he had thought up many of the good planes the U.S. used in World War...
Many U.N. diplomats understand that to classify Gromyko it is necessary to realize that he is not only a new statesman, but a prototype of a new race of men. In Darkness at Noon, writing of those bullheaded, bull-minded men who grew up under the Revolution's rod, Novelist...