Word: diehardism
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Intolerable Noise. In an effort combining both professional and amateur lobbying, they besieged Senators from all over the country-excluding almost none, not even diehard SST backers. Their message: the SST was patently a luxury for the jet set, saving inconsequential hours at huge cost, and potentially a lethal one for everyone. It might pollute the upper air, even cause skin cancer by hampering the formation of the ozone layer that filters out ultraviolet sunlight, create intolerable noise at airports and monstrous, destructive sonic booms while it was airborne. Finally, they argued, it would take millions of dollars that could...
...bulky form made him a tempting target for assassination, and the diehard Secret Army Organization, which despised him for giving up Algeria, was gunning for him. In all, there were at least ten plots and two actual attempts to kill him. Once, on a road near Paris, his black presidential Citroën was riddled with bullets. But De Gaulle and his wife remained sitting erect in the back seat, refusing even to duck. After all, he once wrote: "Adversity attracts the man of character . . . He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility...
Should resistance in the diehard districts take the form of defiance rather than defection, Attorney General Mitchell indicated last week that the Federal Government is ready to deal with it. Appearing before the Senate Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity, headed by Minnesota Democrat Walter Mondale, Mitchell said that he had more than 300 Justice lawyers, as well as FBI agents and U.S. marshals, ready to take legal action against defiant school officials...
...school district is classified officially as having been desegregated, the actual number of black students sitting in classrooms with whites too often remains insignificantly small. Clark's point is, of course, quite valid, but so is the Administration's effort to take the necessary first steps against diehard segregation in the South...
...which the waters flow. The value of man's imitating nature was soon apparent in the Grand Rapids experiment, which showed a dramatic reduction in the number of children's cavities (see chart). With that and similar proof from Newburgh, the campaign for nationwide fluoridation began. Despite diehard opposition, it has now progressed to the point where 43% of the total U.S. population has this anticavity protection...