Word: doggedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Albert approached the job with dogged persistence. His responsibility as whip was to keep track of every Democratic vote on every major issue. Recalled Albert: "When I was whip, I'd get the reports in from the assistant whips. I'd call every doubtful member. I then could...
Cantabrigians are dogged in their insistence that the typical Harvard man is a nonexistent breed. New Yorkers never bother. The typical is not a category relevant to New York. No one bats an evelash at a drunk urinating from a Bleeker Street window; a made up queen, in St. Mark...
Harvard men are even more dogged than their Radcliffe counterparts in insisting that awesome individualism and, consequently, unfathomable multiplicity, are their only measure. To snip ungainly squares out of the brilliant patchwork that is Harvard would be the most impudent and absurd of tasks. Harvard men will not suffer themselves...
Imitation of Christ. The son of a former Swedish Prime Minister and a brilliant economist in his own right, Hammarskjöld was a meteoric success as a banker even before he entered international politics. Yet Markings shows that every step of the way he was dogged by agonizing self...
Gibraltar's main - and almost only -street is a delightful omnium-gatherum of the civilizations that have passed its way since Hercules rent Europe from Africa and made the Rock one of his Pillars. On the soft Mediterranean air, jasmine and mimosa mingle with the aroma of frying pescado...