Word: mulish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ball's mulish and ruthless uses of power are legend. Rather than bend to union demands in 1963, he took a nine-year strike on the Florida East Coast Railway. He ran the line with scab labor, and managers trimmed featherbedded jobs and produced the road's first profits since World War II. Another time, when Ball decided that the taxes of several Florida counties were too high, he simply paid half the bill; only Dade County had the temerity to sue for the rest...
...element that made him different?the innocence of the outsider, the incorruptibility of the unentrenched. That difference was his major hold on the American people." Other bureaus saw that hold slipping as well. From Chicago, Midwest Bureau Chief Benjamin Cate reported that Carter had lost credibility because of his "mulish support of Lance in the face of the overwhelming evidence that his Budget Director was, at the very least, a wheeler-dealer. Had Carter cut his losses early on by easing Lance out, he would have gotten himself off the hook." From Boston, Senior Correspondent James Bell noted: "A wide...
...relaxation. At Long Wharf I have New York exposure when I want it and a board of directors who understand that theater today, like opera and ballet, is not going to make money." Although Long Wharf now plays to 90% capacity in an eight-month season, it has a mulish deficit of $400,000. Still, Brown, an optimist, sees a trend being reversed. "Two successful theaters have made New Haven as a theater town. Why, people here are more inclined to see a play than a film. It's an American miracle!" ∙Gina Mallet
...standard frontier alien, but Catherine is a refreshing variant of the headstrong heroine. She is a potentially capable woman to whom nothing has happened, so she has nothing to bring to a sudden flood of experience except some mulish preconceptions. Durham leads her through the standard scenes: the learn-your-place tethering by Jay, the strip-or-go-filthy decision, the threat of lascivious Indians. Catherine handles them all incongruously...
...small part of the Allingham charm is her chariness with detail. Where Sayers gorges the reader with information about Lord Peter's mulish family and elegant tastes, Allingham drops only a few facts per book. In Police at the Funeral, for instance, the reader learns that Mr. Campion loathes and suppresses his Christian name, Rudolph, which makes it all the more astonishing to discover-eleven books later-that he has called his own son Rupert. Gradually, too, as the series progresses, a caste of semiregulars assembles: the policemen Gates and Luke, the trouble-prone Faraday clan, Sister Val. Perhaps...