Word: hardheadedness
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In Line at 8. Hardheaded Frank McMahon has worked for 20 years to see it come in. Son of a British Columbia wildcatter, McMahon attended Spokane's Gonzaga University (where he was a campus mate of Bing Crosby), began wildcatting in the 19303. In 1939 he formed Pacific Petroleums...
Author Maclean finds Tito at 65 "as alert, as decisive and as hardheaded as ever and as ready as ever to face resolutely, realistically and ruthlessly any situation that may confront him." But Maclean makes no final estimate of Tito's place in history, and even Tito himself shows...
¶Highhanded and hardheaded as ever, the executive committee of the United States Lawn Tennis Association listened to a report from a special committee unanimously recommending open tournaments between pros and amateurs, hardly took time for a haughty huff before unanimously squelching the suggestion.
But soon after Hollister got down to work, New York Timesman James Reston nominated him to membership in a "4-H Club" within the Administration bent on gutting foreign aid. The other members: Treasury Secretary George Humphrey (soon to resign), onetime Under Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. (who resigned...
Deutscher passionately believes that Russian workers and intellectuals "are throbbing and stirring," that Russia is "relearning freedom." Often scholarly and hardheaded, Crystal-Gazer Deutscher (a Communist until he was thrown out of the party in 1932 for anti-Stalinism) is also a sentimentalist who believes that Stalinism is wrong but...