Word: intransigente
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Guatemala hurriedly prepared to recognize both Chile's and Argentina's Antarctic claims, even though they overlapped. Argentine Tango Composer Enrique Dicépolas got a cable from Mexico City: "Word has reached here of the gallant posture you've assumed in front of the intransigent British...
World Forum. Nobody ever accused Foreign Affairs of being exciting reading; the magazine and its readers are much too serious to worry about boring anybody. A forum for high, grey brows, Foreign Affairs offered "a broad hospitality to divergent ideas." In its sober rag pages, chancellors, premiers and secretaries of...
Around the long table in the Senate's main conference room, the steelmakers assembled, with some unpleasant charges still ringing in their ears. The C.I.O.'s United Steel Workers had charged that present U.S. steel capacity (91 million tons a year) was about 20 million tons below future...
When crossed, Wilson was intransigent, bitter, even vindictive. "Wilson's intransigence in the matter of [the eating clubs], his refusal to compromise . . . his refusal to treat tolerantly those who opposed him were among the major mistakes of his career." In the graduate-school fight, Wilson "shifted from one issue...
As the Royal Family, assiduously escorted by their busy host Prime MinisterSmuts-whom the King personally invested with the Order of Merit-shuttled between official receptions and informal garden parties, intransigent nationalists wilted left & right before the family's charm. Daniel Malan, nationalist leader of the opposition, conscientiously boycotted...