Word: intransigente
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A few months later he was transferred to Chico, Calif, (pop: 5,500) over his protests that it was "Siberia." The bank also wrangled with its intransigent clerk over a $15.12 expense account (the bank eventually paid). Soon Clerk Washer was fired. The NLRB ordered him reinstated.
A stubborn man with a single, overriding idea set out with nothing but his voice and Churchill's backing to prove that France was still a power. So single was his purpose, so passionate his belief in his mission and in himself that he occasionally confused their identities. Once...
But Mr. Jones is realist enough to know that moral desire is not enough to constitute a program, and Professor Becker does not kick the fellow who is ready with the blueprint out his Cornell study window. Different in temper and approach, Becker and Jones can nevertheless be reconciled and...
The Desert Song (Warner) lingers melodiously on from the days (1926-27) when it was a Broadway operetta and the fractious Riffs were all that most people knew about in North Africa. It tries hard to be immediately prewar, with cracks about Vichy and a Nazi plot to put a...
When Congress recessed, she summed up its work, dealing out pats and lumps as she saw fit. Said she: "An intransigent, unyielding, bitter-end Congress ... is confronted by an equally stubborn, unbending, unmollifying Chief Executive. . . . Members of Congress are going home for nine weeks to the grass roots. . . . One hopes...