Word: hardheadedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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One way or another, U.S. private preparatory schools last week were all doing their patriotic duty and getting themselves shipshape for war. So far they had weathered the storm well; only one or two weak sisters had foundered; enrollments and support were still high. But their hardheaded headmasters were caulking...
The Countess checked in at the Athene Palace the day Paris fell. She found the hotel swarming with "spies of every Intelligence Service in the world; the diplomats and military attaches of great and little powers; British and French oil men on their way out, and German and Italian oil...
No great shakes as a play-at times rhetorical, at moments wooden, wobbly at the start, dawdling at the end-In Time to Come is yet a vivid stage document. At least twice-when the high-minded Wilson comes up against the hardheaded Lloyd George and the cynical Clemenceau, and...
But even on the grounds of realistic, hardheaded self-interest, he had no triumph to record. He was Man of 1939 for the deal he made with Hitler-a deal which sold out the foes of Naziism, plunged the rest of the world into mutual slaughter so that Russia might...
Most comforting view of these attacks was that Japanese units were making an ineffectual nuisance of themselves. But it was more likely, in view of hardheaded operations to date, that beyond the damage they might cause the chief aim of the Japanese commanders was to create diversions, to try to...