Word: diehardism
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...final vote on the foreign aid bill reflected the predominant view that the measure was the best possible guess as to what is required abroad and what the U.S. can afford to put up. Sixty-one voted for it; only five, all diehard Republican isolationists, voted...
...Howard Buffett, Nebraska Republican and diehard isolationist; Fred Marshall, Minnesota Democrat and farmer, who had "no quarrel" with the bill, but wanted to register "no confidence in the spending policies of the Defense Department...
...Only diehard Giant fans still think there is much hope of catching the Dodgers, but last week, in a do-or-die series, the Giants served notice that they cannot be counted out quite yet. In the first game the Giants finally beat Brooklyn Pitcher Preacher Roe (after he had won ten straight), 4-0. The Dodgers exploded in the second, 10-4. In the rubber game, Giant Outfielder Monte Irvin drove in four runs with two homers, beat the Dodgers almost singlehanded...
...story largely in terms of a Texas-proud lieutenant (Van Johnson) whose Nisei men gradually overcome his prejudice against them. At the climax, the 442nd's rescue of a trapped battalion of the 36th (Texas) Infantry Division in France's Vosges Mountains, even Johnson's diehard, Jap-hating buddy (Don Haggerty) takes the Nisei to his bosom...
...Stone of Destiny, for the second time in 655 years, was whisked away from its native heath last week and carried back into English captivity. A handful of diehard Scots stood by in sad farewell to the 485-lb. yellow sandstone symbol of Scottish nationalism. Only a scattering of newsmen attempted pursuit as British policemen carried the ancient relic in an official car from ruined Arbroath Abbey, south across the border to London's Westminster, from which it had been lifted last Christmas (TIME...