Word: diehardism
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...Washington had already leaked the subs1) the U.N. is willing to trade 70,000 diehard Communist prisoners for 12,000 U.N. prisoners, a figure which apparently does not include all of the South Koreans held by the Communists; 2) it will not accept Russia as a member of the armistice inspection commission, but will settle for Poland and Czechoslovakia; 3) it will agree to let the Communists go on building airfields during the armistice...
...basketball fan, who found last year that he was being bilked by gangsters and crooked college boys, is a wide-eyed diehard. The fans may suspect any one of their current heroes of being on a gambler's payroll, but they are pouring back into the big-city arenas and college gyms in unprecedented numbers. Attendance figures, according to a United Press survey, are up by more than...
Other highlights of last week's action: ¶ Wielding flamethrowers and white-phosphorous grenades, gallant doughfeet of the U.S. 2nd Division and attached French overran the last, northernmost peak of Heartbreak Ridge, where a few diehard North Koreans were holding out from a fortified bowl-shaped depression on top. The attackers were aided by tank columns which ranged up the valleys on both sides of the ridge, blasting the Communist positions on top and on the slopes. The peak was so precariously held by the allies that they were dislodged-for twelve hours-by a Red counterattack in less...
...reviving the class hatreds born in "the bad old days." One of Labor's political weaknesses is that a new generation is growing up with little experience of such "capitalist exploitation." At Labor meetings, sometimes as many as two-thirds are people in their 50s. Grumbled one old diehard: "The youngsters will ruin us. They're too young to remember Tory misrule...
...devotion to the woolly formulas of Social Credit. His public speeches still include occasional vague references to monetary reform, but there is no more talk of the $25-a-month bonus, although Alberta's current $70 million cash surplus would presumably permit a few token dividends. When some diehard...