Word: hardheadedness
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No great shakes as a play-at times rhetorical, at moments wooden, wobbly at the start, dawdling at the end-In Time to Come is yet a vivid stage document. At least twice-when the high-minded Wilson comes up against the hardheaded Lloyd George and the cynical Clemenceau, and...
But even on the grounds of realistic, hardheaded self-interest, he had no triumph to record. He was Man of 1939 for the deal he made with Hitler-a deal which sold out the foes of Naziism, plunged the rest of the world into mutual slaughter so that Russia might...
Most comforting view of these attacks was that Japanese units were making an ineffectual nuisance of themselves. But it was more likely, in view of hardheaded operations to date, that beyond the damage they might cause the chief aim of the Japanese commanders was to create diversions, to try to...
It was tragic, thought the General, that the Administration did not agree with this view. But he was sure that most of his fellow countrymen, certainly most realistic hardheaded businessmen in isolationist Chicago, did agree. The General thought something ought to be done about it.
Sometimes Harold Ickes gets wistful, wonders why he is nobody's sweetheart. Said he recently: "I'm not a backslapper. I'm not a popular man and I know it. ... I'm short-tempered. I don't want yes-men around me. . . . I'm...