Word: diehardism
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...uncle); to Britain's political leaders, who keep advancing him, he is a diplomat-sailor with charm, foresight and savvy; to his fellow officers he is courageous and capable; to the newspaper-reading public he is part hero, part legend, handsome and dashing. But to some diehard Tories, Mountbatten is a bad word...
Queen's Words. When the police arrived to evict the Batonga, some diehard villagers would not move. Said a government official: "I told them that the words I was saying were the Queen's words and asked them if they would refuse the Queen's words. They said they did refuse the Queen's words." And with that unexpected defiance, the long docile Batonga erupted in a brief spasm of fury. Some 500 young tribesmen, armed with spears and pointed sticks, charged the police, were promptly scattered by a volley of gunfire which killed eight...
...there was little doubt that the news on the editorial pages heralded a strategic retreat in Richmond toward token compliance with the U.S. Supreme Court's integration decrees. The import was not lost on the segregationists who sent News Leader Editor Kilpatrick, the most articulate spokesman for the diehard segregationists, a bitter, one-sentence telegram: "Et tn, Brute...
...note, the elder Isaacs stated: "We are all profoundly humiliated and endangered by what is going on in Arkansas and Virginia and throughout the South wherever the diehard racists are in command...
...stumping the state from one end to the other, Salt Lake County Attorney Frank E. Moss, 47, won the Democratic nomination by an unexpectedly heavy vote (total Democratic vote was 5,000 greater than total Republican). And waiting in the wings until November is ex-Governor J. Bracken Lee. Diehard Republican Lee, running as an independent, is not expected to win -but might siphon off enough Republican votes to let Democrat Moss sneak through...