Word: hardheadedness
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To make up for the loss of income, the doctors pressured Congress to grant a 25-50% rise in their government wage. But when hardheaded Finance Minister Eugenio Gudin pointed out that the bill would add a billion cruzeiros yearly to the bulging budget, Café Filho vetoed it.
The Upsets. Among men who follow football, Notre Dame had been a 13-point choice. But this season even the experts are used to surprises. From hardheaded prognosticators who swear by their charts to stouthearted alumni who swear at their coaches, the second-guessers have seldom been so wrong. Champions...
It was back in 1949, as every good Communist knows, that those wicked Americans dropped the first Colorado beetles on Czechoslovakia's burgeoning potato fields. The diligent, hardheaded commissars of Horazdovice district were not panicked by the sly American trick. At the first notice of potato bugs in their...
When Lieut. General Elwood Ricardo Quesada retired from the Air Force in 1951, he had behind him 25 years of service and the experience of commanding the AEC's first thermonuclear tests at Eniwetok (TIME, April 2, 1951). Last week "Pete" Quesada, now 50 and a Lockheed Aircraft Corp...
The story of the V-2s has usually been told by the young enthusiasts. Now it is told by a German general who put them to work for the German army. Under his direction the rocketeers' dreams of space fligts. turned into a hardheaded weapons project, then into a...