Word: bullheadedness
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On a summer day in 1935, in the little village of Gagliano, Fascist guards took the handcuffs off bullheaded Painter Carlo Levi's wrists and drove away. Levi's crime was anti-Fascist opinions. His sentence: three years' exile in southern Italy's barren, unhealthy province...
As the deep winters and stormy summers passed, the loess (heavy deposit of windblown dust) gradually washed and gullied away. Nertha, too, changed. She suffered Pier and worked for him. At last she became barren, apathetic, shrewish. When Teo, their little boy, was six, he was already doing a man...
He needed some reassurance. All week long the Democrats had been snickering as Republicans lambasted each other over the 20% income-tax cut promised by bullheaded Harold Knutson during the campaign. Knutson had tried to bulldoze his Ways and Means Committee into endorsing his bill, only to have Michigan'...
After that, George caved in. His men voted 1,197 to 797 to go back to work. Pittsburgh's nightmare was over, but awful memories lingered. Statisticians guessed that bullheaded George's strike had cost about $400,000,000 in wages and lost business.
Don Quinn's formula: put into Fibber's loud mouth all the bromidic complaints of disgruntled civilians-and then point out the vulgar errors of Fibber's thinking. When OWI wanted to hit unnecessary travel, Quinn had Fibber attempt a 250-mile train trip, fail to get...