Word: hardheadedness
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Control with a Vengeance. Actually, even among the farm groups, hardheaded farmers looked skeptically on Charlie Brannan's rabbit. From the farmer's standpoint, the suspicious part of the deal was that it would also give the Government more power to decide what farmers could plant, how they...
Thomas Finletter, 55, a Philadelphia-born Wall Street lawyer (son and grandson of judges) with a trigger-quick mind, served as ECA's chief in Britain. Reticent, hardheaded and caustic-humored, Finletter has been called "the little acid drop." The British did not mind his sharpness. Said one appreciative...
. . . You're to be congratulated for the fair and hardheaded judgments you passed on Garry Davis' "world citizenship" movement. As you so well point out, this movement, in its efforts to be objective and above national partisanship, misrepresents the nature of our difference with Russia and, falsely, tars...
Hardheaded observers are tempted to pigeonhole Davis and his disciples as a bunch of displaced sophomores, longhaired faddists and tea-party internationalists. And so, to a considerable extent, they are. But they are more. They are stage managers of a well-meaning but dangerous and irresponsible force.
Stalin says, in effect, that the automatic blossoming of revolution is fine, but that many a near-revolution will fail if there is not a trained, hardheaded, ruthless organization which can, at just the right moment, topple the edifice. Here is where Stalin, along with Lenin, battles the ultra-leftists...