Word: diehardism
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...Protestants, all liberals and the Pope? Theodore Adams is one of their most noted pastors, yet he never flails the air with more than a finger when he preaches to his congregation, which includes young executives and their wives, painters, postmen and the managers of chain stores. Are they diehard Confederates to whom a Northerner is necessarily a Yankee and a Yankee is always unnecessary? Pastor Adams is one of the most influential men in the South, but he was born in New York and raised in Oregon and Indiana...
Argentine marines swooped into the Buenos Aires headquarters of the diehard Peronista labor confederation, in a double-locked room discovered a white-shrouded body laid out on a long table flanked by evergreens. The corpse: none other than Eva Peron, perfectly preserved though three years dead of cancer, whose whereabouts was till now a mystery to Argentina's victorious revolutionaries. With ex-Dictator Juan Peron (the "immortal widower") now in exile, Eva's remains will probably be turned over to her mother for burial at last...
Three days after El Glaoui's about-face, the diehard Union for the French Presence, representing powerful French colons in Morocco, also backed down from its previous stand, issued a meekly worded statement saying that the question of the throne was "for Moroccans only." Meanwhile, Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa, the man the French had chosen to be Sultan, then exiled, renounced all rights to the throne in favor of Ben Youssef...
...crucial issue was Morocco, and there, Faure's carom shots had brought the crisis on himself. Three months ago he had sent Gilbert Grandval to Morocco to devise a plan. Grandval did. But when diehard colonists objected, Faure reacted characteristically. He adopted the plan and fired the man who devised...
From these two emotions comes the widespread confidence that Eisenhower has inspired. Critics in his own party, diehard Democrats, French neutralists, oppose him but do not think he will do anything very wrong. (Even the Communists, going along, profess to trust him more than other American leaders.) Popular affection for Eisenhower focused attention on the content of that word "mild." How good were his hopes of recovery? As far as could be learned from naturally cautious medical bulletins, read in the light of what medical specialists know about such cases, the chances were good that he would have many happy...