Word: diehardism
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There are some diehard segregationists who refuse to recognize defeat and vow to continue the fight. It is doubtful that they can. Their leaders have so far offered more rhetoric than resistance. Former Gubernatorial Candidate Jimmy Swan called a meeting in Jackson to protest the exploitation of Mississippi schoolchildren by "tyrannical Federal Government bureaucrats." But his call for massive resistance has lost its impact as a battle cry, and the best he could do was urge parents to keep their children out of integrated schools...
...devout Methodist and Bible-spouting orator ("If a man finds his politics and religion don't mix, there is something wrong with his politics"), Clement won Tennessee's governorship in 1952 at the age of 32; two years later he was easily reelected. A moderate in the diehard South, he rose to national prominence as the Democratic Convention keynoter in 1956 with his "How long, America, O how long?" speech, ripping into "Vice-Hatchetman" Nixon. A third term as Tennessee's Governor came in 1962, but then Clement's star began to wane...
...market were dispensed along with cocktails and tiny sandwiches. Outside, pickets protested the lack of black and women artists in the show. Manhattan's venerable Metropolitan Museum had never before been host to anything quite like it, a fact that was duly lamented by diehard traditionalists. The occasion? The Met's 100th birthday. With the opening last week of its first centennial exhibition, the museum seemed to be deGlaring that it had no intention of getting any older...
...school systems have offered Biblical studies of any kind. Justice Tom C. Clark's majority opinion in the Supreme Court decision made a point of recommending that the Bible should still be studied for its "literary and historic qualities," but that option is rarely exercised. Some diehard school districts in a few states still defy the court and teach an old-fashioned Protestant version of the Bible, but only four states, a handful of cities and some individual schools have attempted new approaches to the Bible...
Purchasers may find that their years of work are only just beginning. The kit's mathematical potential for producing different compositions adds up to a 281-digit figure, or 5,971,415,683,544,067, followed by 265 zeros. Which means, theoretically anyway, that a diehard-and his heirs-can create a different design every day just about from here to eternity...