Word: mulish
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...young and wild; that is my New Deal group, backed by organized labor and its sympathizers, the intellectuals; they want to gallop all the time, and I have to put a curb-bit in that horse's mouth. The second is much older, and inclined to be mulish; that is my block of Southern states . . . And then my third horse, a nervous and skittish steed which I seldom dare mention by name. You will consider my naming it confidential, please? . . . My Roman Catholic charger. There are twenty million Catholics in this country, and the great bulk of them think...
...shifted their infield men to the right. It was both a tribute to Williams' prowess as a right field hitter, and an insuring bet on his inability to hit anywhere else. Sure enough, he hit squarely into the concentrated St. Louis defense. Since Ted Williams is a moody, mulish sort of fellow, nobody knew for sure whether he couldn't or wouldn't hit to left. Fans asked two questions: "Who won today?" and then-"Did Williams...
Missouri's mulish Representative Dewey Short reiterated the House position: "They don't need them, and I don't think they need the bill at all with the voluntary enlistments they are getting." This week, as the bill went to a joint House-Senate conference committee, the best anyone hoped for was a compromise which would set the lower age limit for draftees...
Some of the most hardheaded incumbent isolationists were already beaten in primaries: Missouri's mulish Bennett Clark, Idaho's stubborn D. Worth Clark, Oregon's egregious Rufus Holman, South Carolina's "Cotton Ed" Smith...
...Democratic Senators have fought Franklin Roosevelt more bitterly than Missouri's mulish, rufous Bennett Champ Clark, who never forgets a grudge. (His oldest grudge: in 1912 young Franklin Roosevelt, 30, helped swing the Democratic convention to Woodrow Wilson and away from the Senator's father, the late Speaker Champ Clark.) Yet Bennett Clark, campaigning for his own third term, swallowed his isolationist line and pledged himself to support Franklin Roosevelt's peace program...