Word: diehardism
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...Southerner refused to support the changes. When the vote was taken, only G.O.P. conservatives and Ohio's Democratic Conservative Frank Lausche held out; the amendment passed 77-14. Two-and-a-half hours later, after nine days of debate, the revised Kennedy bill passed 90-1, with only Diehard Barry Goldwater voting against...
...springlike burgeoning of life" because, unlike other Deep South states, it is not "a country living under a spell." The most important new fact about the U.S. South in the spring of 1959: burgeoning North Carolina, too busy in pursuit of 20th century economic development to be inhibited by diehard last stands against school integration, has quietly taken over the mantle of Southern leadership that Virginia wore so long, so proudly...
...Lama and his escort fled by night and hid by day in lamaseries, villages and Khamba encampments, the furious Red Chinese boasted that they had put down the three-day revolt in Lhasa that had served to cover the God-King's escape. Point-blank artillery fire drove diehard lamas from the Norbulingka, summer palace on the city's outskirts. Red infantrymen surged into the vast warrens of the Potala winter palace, rounded up defiant monks in narrow passages and dark rooms where flickering butter lamps made Tibet's grotesque gods and demons seem to caper...
Dream & Reality. In Algiers, newspapers of the diehard European settlers violently expressed their "distrust" of the man their riots had helped bring to power. Disheartening as De Gaulle's long view might seem to many of his countrymen, nothing else seemed to promise quicker relief. Last week Morocco's King Mohammed V, increasingly weary of the effect of the Algerian war on his own country, was angling for a visit with De Gaulle (who said fine), reportedly hoped to convince De Gaulle that autonomy within the French Community would be the best solution for Algeria...
...diehard traditionalists strongly believe that every marriage should be arranged. To them, a wedding is not a loving union between individuals but a solemn bond between families. To pacify this powerful group, the Director of the Imperial Household Board appeared before the Japanese Diet and solemnly insisted that the royal marriage was prearranged and "not a tennis-court romance...