Word: hardheadedness
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So the Shah, Mohamed Reza had to do his diplomatic best. In occasional interviews he spoke hopefully to British and U.S. correspondents of democracy and postwar progress. When cabinets fell (a not infrequent occurrence), he labored dutifully to find a premier who would satisfy the conflicting requirements of the outspoken...
The Senate had done exactly what Ohio's hardheaded, conservative Robert Alphonso Taft had demanded for months, usually with small support. It had passed an amendment declaring that for whatever the Federal Government spends (after 1947) there must be new taxes "to prevent any net increase in the federal...
The question of the week was: should France have a big, expensive army or a small, inexpensive one? Puffy-cheeked War Minister André Diethelm thought the army should be a whopper, chiefly as a matter of prestige. Lean, hardheaded Finance Minister René Pleven insisted that a small, tight...
Explicit Backing. The new Sino-Russian treaty in Chiang's pocket, dropped there by Premier Soong's masterly diplomacy in Moscow (and presumably by hardheaded Russian evaluation of Chinese Communist strength vis-a-vis Central Government strength), brought the "political solution" near realization.
¶An infrared telescope sight enabling snipers to see targets at night. ¶A rocket (almost perfected) with a range of 1,200-1,800 miles. (The German scientists said they were well on the way toward a rocket that would reach the U.S. (TIME, June 25)-were sure that...