Word: headstrong
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...Headstrong. In Manhattan, at a U.S. Customs Service auction, an unidentified man bid 25? for a toupee, won it, insisted it was for a friend, walked out of the room without removing...
Armand Tokatyan, Bulgarian-born of Armenian parents, Egyptian-raised, Italian-trained, U.S.-naturalized tenor of the Metropolitan Opera, protested in fluent English ("My wife is highly emotional, selfish, headstrong, insanely jealous, quarrelsome and irresponsible") against his better half's plea for $250 weekly alimony pending separation. He said she once told him: "Your voice stinks." He also said, while denying various charges, that when a policewoman pinched him at Macy's lingerie counter, it was not because he had pinched her first...
...Edward William Spencer Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire, and his stately wife, the Lady Mary Alice Gascoyne-Cecil. Lady Mary's mother, the Marchioness of Salisbury, thought it wise to come, too. Reluctantly the Duke agreed that he was the one to speak to his headstrong son-&-heir, William John Robert Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington and a Captain in the Coldstream Guards...
...Tohokai's chief, Nakano forged tight bonds with the Army, outshouted all other jingoists in demands for aggression, became known as "Father of Japan's Fascism." Vain and headstrong, he refused offers of high Government posts (except for a spell as a vice minister); his goal was to rule the Government through his party, through threats, through the clamor of the rabble. Though Cabinets feared and hated him, he never dominated any of them. But as Japan's best-known fascist, he helped to mold the public mind, supplied the Army with totalitarian catchwords, had much...
Sometimes weeping softly, sometimes roaring with rage, frog-voiced Mr. Riebel blamed all the troubles at Brewster on the "hellish" contract it had with C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers. He lashed out at the union's tough, headstrong boss, Tom De Lorenzo, impaled lesser officials as "punks and heels," denounced the local itself as that "gang of forty thieves." Carefully he explained that those opinions had grown in him only after he came to Brewster, last March. He had cozied up to the union. Said he: "I got in bed with Tom De Lorenzo, with the cover tucked...