Word: hardheadedness
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Israel's present leaders are determined that their nation will not take that path. Foremost and most determined among them is David Ben-Gurion, Premier and Defense Minister, labor leader and philosopher, hardheaded, unsociable and abrupt politician, a prophet who carries a gun.
Methodical Man. A quiet, hardheaded German, Charles Boettcher came to the U.S. in 1869, when he was 17. For eleven years, he sold hardware-pickaxes and hammers, nails and hatchets-to get-rich-quick Leadville. Slowly and painstakingly, he built up his savings. Then he bought a cattle ranch and...
Died. Charles Williams Nash, 84, hardheaded, rags-to-riches automaker; of a heart ailment; in Beverly Hills, Calif. An unschooled farm boy who called himself the "most common cuss in the world," he rose from upholstery stuffer to general superintendent of a Michigan carriage company, turned to automaking in 1910...
In this way, startled customers-and the garment industry-were shown a new technique in suitmaking: the "PhotoMetric method." Before long, many a hardheaded textileman thinks, the PhotoMetric method will cause something like a revolution in the men's and women's suit industry by radically changing tailoring...
Last week, in France-Soir's building on the Rue Réaumur, blond young (28) Publisher Aristide Blank made a hardheaded guess about the future of the French press; "An island of collectivism cannot exist in a sea of capitalism. The only possible press here is one based...