Word: diehardism
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Tacho's fat-pig policy was paying off. For diehard Nicaraguan exiles, the legion's end meant that nothing short of a thunderbolt could now topple Tacho. Homesick and penniless, they had begun drifting back to make their peace with the porky dictator. He was glad to see them: "I want all Nicaraguans home. I like to have 'em close, so I can keep an eye on them, bless...
Some patients were running doctors ragged with petty requests. ("I always use Carter's Little Liver Pills. Please can I have a chit so that I can get them free?") A few diehard doctors, still hoping that the act would be a bust, were blandly prescribing champagne, oysters, whiskey and rum for their patients-at government expense. Some patients were unreasonable. One physician, forced to cancel his evening office hours because of a difficult, ten-hour delivery, was greeted at his surgery next morning by four threatening hoodlums; he was now a servant of the people, they told...
...Inheritors. The moving spirit of the gathering was Majority Whip Kenneth Wherry, the ex-isolationist from Nebraska. Among the conferees were such diehard inheritors of the old isolationist tradition as Ohio's John Bricker, Illinois' "Curley" Brooks, Missouri's James Kem. In all, 20 Republican Senators turned up. Except for California's Bill Knowland, all were men who had been stirring restlessly under the bipartisan policy. All had been growing increasingly critical of Arthur Vandenberg's willingness to work with the Administration...
...Everyone but a diehard Republican will say, I believe, that we started off very badly, indeed. . . . Let us face it. In the opening months of this year's session, the Republican majority in Congress, under the guidance of the party's senior leaders from hard-core Republican states, approached national issues from the old-line Republican point of view in most instances. That meant that many of them pushed for severe curbs on labor . . . for immediate wide-scale tax reduction . . . for abolition of rent control . . . and it meant that they showed a noticeable disinclination to take any immediate...
...kind of speech that would sit well on diehard Republican stomachs. Even some Stassen supporters thought he might be talking too much, too early. But both agreed that, without the sounding board of elective office, it was his only way of keeping in the battle area, that he had a long stern-chase ahead if he were ever to get within shooting distance of Tom Dewey. As Harold Stassen started off this week on a political pilgrimage into Texas, they were also agreed with Stassen himself that he could not yet be discounted as just another also...