Word: diehard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...peace process set in motion last week in Madrid? Are the stakes high enough to justify the considerable investment of President Bush's time and prestige? Do the risks of failure outweigh the potential gains? Is "peace in the Middle East" something Americans really need -- or one of those diehard shibboleths that keep successive U.S. Administrations chasing around the track...
...diehard Red Sox fan, but I think I'd rather be watching Steve Avery and Lonnie Smith take the field tomorrow night than Roger Clemens or Wade Boggs (maybe that's just because I know the Boston gang would lose...
...warped justice; Dale's murderous uncle Elvin; and Dr. Tommy Vasco, a former dermatologist with a skinful of booze and drugs. Maximum Bob's survival depends on Kathy Baker, an attractive young probation officer. She and the rest of the cast provide a few entertaining moments for diehard fans. All others should wait until Leonard takes early retirement from the police farce...
...recalled the scene last week, when Gamsakhurdia became the first popularly elected president of a Soviet republic. Georgia has much to fear from diehard imperialists in Moscow, but there is another, internal menace -- a growling presence in the garden. The republic is cursed by its own demography. In that sense, it is a microcosm of the U.S.S.R. More than 80 nationalities share a territory half the size of Arkansas. The new, breakaway leadership tends to behave toward its minorities the way the Kremlin -- starting with the Bolsheviks' first commissar of nationalities, the Georgian Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, alias Stalin -- has treated...
Unfortunately, Democratic primaries tend to attract diehard liberals, who tend to nominate liberal candidates. When the general election comes around, more conservative Democrats come out to vote--and choose the Republican nominee...