Word: diehardism
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...best known and most prosperous lawyer in mid-Michigan. George was born in 1890 in Cheboygan and raised in Saginaw, where his father, Watts Humphrey, was a hearty, roaring trial lawyer with an excellent practice. His mother, a former schoolteacher, was a wise and gentle parent and a political diehard (all through the New Deal she spelled Roosevelt with a small...
Four months after the bloody prisoner of war riots on Koje Island last February, many of the worst North Korean rioters, diehard Communists all, were moved by General "Bull" Boatner to the prisoner compounds on neighboring Pongam Island. There was an ominous hint of trouble to come on Pongam recently when the P.W. command uncovered Communist plans for a mass escape attempt. Last week trouble materialized with a roar in six compounds of Pongam's enclosure No. 2, where 3,600 of the camp's 9,000 prisoners are confined...
...minority of diehard Newfoundlanders think that the development program is all wrong-that they should not attempt such a wrenching change in the economy that has kept the island since the time of Cabot. They say that Smallwood has gone "whoring after false gods" in his campaign for industries. Joey Smallwood pays scant attention to such complaints, preferring instead to restate his faith that old Newfoundland is at last beginning to catch up with the rest of North America. "For the first time in our history," he says, "our people have a chance to be healthy, well fed, well dressed...
Democracy, as the U.S. understands it, took more defeats in South America last week. Chile voted a diehard nationalist ex-dictator back to power; in Ecuador the most effective democratic administration in 28 years gave way to another elected ex-dictator. It was a moment for the U.S. people in general, and the State Department in particular, to face a distasteful fact: with these changes, all the South American republics except Uruguay will be governed by dictators or ex-dictators. Some of the governments still profess to be well disposed toward the U.S. and its ideas of democracy...
...Mathias left a mob of newsmen and radio sportcasters in his dressing room, came out and trotted once more around the track to the roar of 5,000 diehard fans. He had racked up a total of 7,887 points, 62 points better than his own world record. But the cheering was not all for the pride of Tulare: his two team mates, New Jersey's 1 8-year-old Milton Campbell and North Carolina's Floyd Simmons had nailed down second and third places for a U.S. sweep of the Olym pics' most demanding test...