Word: hardheadedness
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Francis: Love! That's what it is. We're all hardheaded, but we've got lots of love.
Far from being wrong, testified Walter H. Judd, former Minnesota Republican Congressman, U.S. China policy since 1950 has been "hardheaded and realistic." Judd, a former medical missionary in China, insisted that a softer attitude would not only betray the Nationalist Chinese but destroy the faith of U.S. allies elsewhere. He...
Fonda plays a folksy intelligence officer whose outlook remains sensible and somehow civilian. This, the film implies, puts him one up on the hardheaded military professionals (Dana Andrews, Robert Ryan) who refuse to believe, until too late, that the Germans are planning a massive attack. A Nazi tank commander (Robert...
Yet-though he shunned liquor and tobacco-Wallace sounded at times as if his visions were hashish-fed. "At a certain point," wrote Arthur Schlesinger Jr. in The Coming of the New Deal, "his mind seemed almost to break through a sonic barrier and transform itself so that hardheaded analysis...
Plainly, Lindsay needed an extraordinary campaign organization. He got it, thanks to his own hardheaded analysis of the battlefield and the brilliant backroom masterminding of his campaign manager, Robert Price, 33, a blue-jowled, Rasputin-like Bronx Republican. G.O.P. Senator Jacob Javits, a magic name in New York's...