Word: hardheadedness
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Having agreed on this single point, each Senator rapidly retired to his own side of the ideological street. Bob La Follette took his stand as a hardheaded U.S. nationalist whose Midwest idealism has made him suspicious of foreign entanglements. Joe Ball, whose Midwest idealism has fired him with the vision...
The Caffery talents offered no clue to Washington's future course toward De Gaulle. If the U.S. drifts into full recognition of the Paris Government, Diplomat Caffery is an expert at the old game of diplomatic drifting. But he is also known as a hardheaded trouble shooter.
Turkeys for All. Despite its informality, the Grumman policy towards its workers is hardheaded realism. Everything is planned with one idea: will it help production?
The Raj took a bold step in India last week. Viceroy Lord Wavell named hardheaded, hard-working Sir Ardeshir Dalal, 60, of Bombay's famed House of Tata, to a seat on his Executive Council and the job of postwar industrial planning. Britain had smiled on the ambitious Bombay...
Hardheaded and perceptive, with 28 years of diplomatic experience behind him, Ambassador Grew could read the signs-of Japanese militarism as well as anyone. But many of the princes and politicians with whom he hunted wild duck or played poker seemed anything but barbarians and fools. He determined to work...