Word: hardheadedness
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Life As It Was. Many a hardheaded American, secretly scoffing at punditical peace planners, believes his nation already has a long-range foreign policy. Such Americans see the world on a status quo basis, with Germany left as a nation under a new government, conquered nations restored to about their...
Wiry, bespectacled Charles R. Hook, president of American Rolling Mill Co., last week put this question bluntly to a Cincinnati conference of the Ohio American Legion. In trying to answer it himself, hardheaded Mr. Hook, onetime president of the National Association of Manufacturers, brought forth no alchemical formula for postwar...
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli, who today is one of the world's most hardheaded statesmen, was born in 1876 -five years after Bismarck founded the Second Reich; six years after Italy achieved unification by Vittorio Emanuele II's seizing Rome from the Papacy, and Pope Pius IX...
Dispensers of Death. Revenge, and how they got it, is Author Wolfert's story. Not that the men of Torpedo 8 were romantically vengeful: they were "astonishingly practical, very realistic and hardheaded." When asked to volunteer for near-suicide missions, they and their fellow airmen would withdraw to ponder...
Hardheaded Suicides. Torpedo 8 was one of the first American squadrons "to use Guadalcanal for the purpose for which it was taken-as an unsinkable aircraft carrier anchored in the throat of Japan's South Pacific conquests." They learned to know "the groove"-a' long strait down which...