Word: hardheadedness
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Too late, British officials scurried across the Continent to plead their government's case-resembling, in former Tory Party Leader Iain Macleod's withering phrase, "doves sent out from the Ark to tell people that Noah's sorry it's raining." Even so, hardheaded foreign bankers...
Then there's the "hardheaded" professor who says that our chances of surviving atomic war are pretty good but they would be even better if we attacked first. After all, Communism is our mortal enemy, right, so why not? The Russians might kill 60 million Americans, but we'll kill...
That came as no surprise to comrades who admire Sharp's hardheaded skill in a crisis. Says an officer long associated with the admiral: "If I had to choose a man to lead me in peace or in war-a real pro-I'd choose Oley Sharp. When...
Smugglers & Taxidermists. On and on it went, from state Governors down to civil servants. The Governor of Amazonas state was found to have staked out a huge ranch along the banks of the Amazon, added an airstrip, dock and warehouse, and used it to run up a whirlwind trade in...
It looked as though he would be in town for quite a while, and so Jimmy Hoffa, 50, decided to throw the old weight around. Working out with bar bells in a Chattanooga, Tenn., Y.M.C.A., he started with relatively short, painless sessions. That, explained Instructor Bill Floyd, was because the...