Word: doggedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Return Visits. With Armageddon so near, the Witnesses waste no time on the social-betterment projects that so concern other churches, instead concentrate on dogged street-corner and door-to-door evangelism. Last year, for example, Witness ministers spent 208,666,762 hours preaching, made 89,903,578 return visits...
Not that one would wish children of their own on these dogged people. But they should know what they are doing, say to themselves over and over as they fondle the fur of their bouncey little puppy: "What I have here is (and I know it) a baby substitute."
Often the toughest negotiating for an agent is in trying to land a star client. Some enlist the help of teammates with the promise that the agency will make a sizable contribution to the player's alma mater. Other agents play the wine-and-dine game. Halfback Chris Gilbert...
Despite this fearsome facade, however, the Muslims have always been the bourgeoisie of the black militant movement. Today, the sect's 39 years of dogged adherence to the notion of "build black, buy black" is paying dividends.
Fenian Bastards. Paisley's chief bad-german was a blustery ex-Royal Engineers officer named Major Ralph Bunting, who had been attached to a number of far-out political causes before teaming up with Paisley a year ago. Bunting's Boys soon began laying in wait for protest...