Word: bullheadedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are other reasons for the Administration to frown upon the Student Council's recent suggestion to extend Friday parietals to 10 p.m. and to eliminate the privilege of feminine company on some weekday afternoons. Elliott Perkins says that "horsetrading" parietal hours is "nonsense," which should convince all but the...
William Fife Knowland had been U.S. Senator from California for 13 years, was the Republican leader on Capitol Hill, and almost certainly could have been re-elected for another term. But that was not enough for big. bullheaded Bill Knowland. He wanted to be Governor of California, and he had...
The boss of all the Russias also took time to mend an international fence. Without fanfare or announcement, he repaired to a hunting lodge on the Polish side of the Soviet's western borders, there met for three days in closely guarded secrecy with Poland's Communist Boss...
Gomulka's real crime had been his demand that the U.S.S.R. respect Polish sovereignty and let the Poles find their own "road to Socialism," but the Bezpieka, Poland's security police, did its best to persuade Gomulka to confess to a formal charge of "lack of vigilance with...
*Said Johnson: "Sir, a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.* A bullheaded character of mythology, to whom many innocents were sacrificed. It took a hero, Theseus, to find...