Word: intransigente
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One was Michael J. Quill, 60, an intransigent, fork-tongued man with a shanty Irish brogue who is founder and president of the Transport Workers Union and a raving Anglophobe who fought in the Irish Revolutionary Army. He had a meager childhood on a County Kerry farm, immigrated to the...
Still, much of the improvement in the Pulliam papers can be chalked up to Pulliam himself, who has always been portrayed as more of an intransigent conservative than he actually is. At 76, Pulliam is one of those publishers who is a newspaperman first. "Why in hell," he asks, "should...
In fact, Hanoi sounds, if possible, more arrogantly intransigent than ever. North Viet Nam's government last week made a special point of deriding as "fabricated legend" the breathless U.S. press reports of last month that Hanoi had offered to begin peace talks in late 1964. The Communists'...
Error & Ire. The failure of the long-awaited Afro-Asian Conference in Al giers last week was one more step toward an end to that grandiose dream of the underdeveloped nations: a unified, hard-hitting "third world" of Africans and Asians dedicated to fight "Western imperialism" and further "nonalignment." The...
Boston elected Mrs. Hicks to preserve the neighborhood school," which is a polite way of saying de facto segregation. She carried 15 of the city's 22 wards, and of the seven intransigent yards, five are predominantly Negro. In another, Mrs. Hicks missed first place by only five votes.