Word: hardheadedness
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In Manila, cease-fire talks between the government and the Communists were less amiable. The rebels denounced Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile, a Marcos regime holdover who makes no secret of his distrust of the Communists, for revealing "distorted versions of our proposals." Enrile has publicly stated that the Communist...
Some critics fault the Army for not changing with the times, but Burrows rejects the criticism. "We're hardheaded as well as softhearted," she insists. "We won't hang on to things just because we've always done them." As head of women's social services in Britain in the...
In a long conversation last summer with Andrew Stephen, a senior editor of the London Sunday Times Magazine, Charles at times sounded downright angst- ridden. "The more sophisticated, the more technologically advanced we become, and the more we feel we can dominate nature," he mused, "the more we feel that...
He is that stony light-heavyweight Georgian whose Olympic misfortune or fortune it was to ignore the referee's signal and flatten a New Zealander on the break. For knocking himself out, he was awarded the bronze medal. Still the broadcasters and promoters took Holyfield over a number of...
Outside, he moved in a magic circle of surrealists, hardheaded Partisan Review editors and cafe philosophers who lived from hand to mouth, mostly mouth.