Word: diehardism
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...past five years, in one way or another, almost every able-bodied U.S. scientist has worked for the Office of Scientific Research and Development. This week OSRD quietly went out of business.* But scientists, who are diehard individualists, fear that they are not through with being bossed. In universities throughout the land, they are beginning to discover that they have acquired a new paymaster-the U.S. Army & Navy...
West Virginia's diehard Republican Senator Chapman Revercomb rose up on the floor of the Senate to thunder his objections: "I don't want to draft troops to take part in a civil war in China." The little knot of bitter-enders took up the cry. But the Senate, urged on by South Dakota's Republican Senator Chan Gurney, resolutely beat back a last desperate attempt to wreck the draft law, approved (6940-8) a one year's extension to replace the stop-gap bill which expires July...
Afterwards, diehard rooter Saltonstall talked about what he would do as ninth head man in Phillips Exeter's 165 years. Said he: "Exeter has been concerned too much with books and too little with the things you do with your hands...
...first nonverbal reaction was "civil disobedience." Arab workers in Palestine walked out in a twelve-hour general strike. Diehard pan-Arabs called for a jihad, or holy war, to wrest back Palestine from the infidel. In Jerusalem, the Arab temper flared most angrily. A mob surged from the Mosque of Omar, shouted "Death to the Americans and British!" and stoned a column of Tommies. They fell back before British batons and a sudden heavy rainstorm. Tanks rumbled up to the Damascus Gate. The 100,000 British troops in the Holy Land were alerted...
Last week he did it. (Some diehard unionists led by Sam Hendy, grandnephew of company founder Joshua Hendy, still held out.) Now McCone could talk about Hendy's future...