Word: diehardism
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...comprising 4,791 school districts. Today 537 of those school districts are desegregated, and 256,000 Negro children-10% of the Negro enrollment in once-segregated areas-attend integrated schools. Prudently and considerately, the Supreme Court granted lower courts "practical flexibility" in enforcing the decision. In the word flexibility, diehard Southern segregationists saw room for maneuver and delay. And in Southern eyes, the existence of the possibility of delay inevitably put a premium on the politician who would do the most delaying-a politician like James Oliver Eastland...
...setback for the whole Western position in the area. Israel, which used to denounce Glubb Pasha, now recognized him as a moderating force among the Arabs, and took his dismissal as a sign that the neighbor country may disintegrate and that Egypt may install a puppet regime among the diehard Palestinian refugees west of the Jordan...
...Buenos Aires, the newspaper Critica dismissed Perón's threats with a question: "Hasn't Panama measured him for a strait jacket yet?" President Pedro Aramburu and his advisers seemed to sense that madman talk by Perón, who is still revered by millions of diehard Peronistas, provided a tailor-made chance to draw a contrast between the erratic ex-dictator and the sober new regime. The government made three moves that sharpened the impression...
...line retailers had scoffed at the discount houses, but 1955 proved that they are here to stay. The big, old stores had to give up old-fashioned ideas of high markups and open up outlying warehouses where customers could pick up goods at cut-rate prices. Even such diehard Fair Traders as W. A. Schaeffer Pen Co. and McGraw Electric's Toastmaster division either abandoned their Fair Trade principles or started backing down. And last week General Electric chopped appliance prices as much as 30% right down the line...
...Tonga believed that the little craft had struck an uncharted reef, capsized and righted herself. "Those aboard," he said, "must have clung to her sides for as long as they were able before the seas washed them away." Why, then, was her compass missing? And her log book? One diehard romanticist persisted in the belief that Dusty Miller had kidnaped his entire ship's company and whisked them away by lifeboat and raft to a desert island to live forever after, free of the perils of divorce courts and bill collectors...