Word: diehard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...diehard right is alarmed at the very real prospect that in the coming month the government and the A.N.C. will reach a landmark accord. This week negotiators from 26 parties are expected to set the long-awaited date for South Africa's first free nonracial elections. That poll, expected to take place by next April, could elect Mandela President in a government of national unity. The Transitional Executive Council, the first stage of nonracial interim government, could be in place within the next few months...
...collaboration by the Big Three is a watershed in American technological history. Although electric cars have been produced by various manufacturers for more than 150 years, they have been relegated to a handful of diehard loyalists and tinkerers, who were disparaged by most car builders and buyers as the nerds of the American road. It was not hard to understand why. The majority of such vehicles looked like ungainly, homemade versions of lunar walkers. Nor were they paragons of power, convenience or economy. After all, few customers would be drawn to a sale offering such dazzling features as, "Drive...
...commercial software, and if you have to, at least use an illegal copy," was the most memorable line from the talk Richard Stallman gave in early April to a sparse group of diehard Harvard computer junkies...
Some of Clinton's most diehard supporters showed up the night before with suitcases and sleeping bags, planning to camp out for a better view of the festivities...
...side from the aforementioned locals and some diehard ex-Communists in Russia, practically no one noticed the 75th anniversary of the coup which for seven decades gave the Bolsheviks and their progeny control of the world's largest country. My core class on the Russian Revolution joylessly began its midterm 75 years to the hour after the coup got underway. Almost no one there even sensed the timing...