Word: mulishly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good deal more criticism. Back in Britain, former Prime Minister Harold Wilson, whose Labor government banned arms sales to South Africa in 1964, seemed to be setting the stage for a major political contest on the issue. Speaking in Norwich, Wilson labeled his successor a "pathetic" politician who displayed "mulish stubbornness" and "personal prejudice" in Singapore and who proved that he was "not big enough to stand up to the bullyboys in his own party...
...people in the streets," he declared at National Airport. At Springfield, ILL., he criticized the "caterwauling critics in the Senate" who oppose the President's Viet Nam policy. They are part of a "misguided movement-an ultraliberalism that translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy, and a pusillanimous pussyfooting on the critical issue of law and order." Later he said: "How do you fathom the thinking of those who work themselves into a lather over an alleged shortage of nutriments in Wheaties, but who cannot get exercised at all over a flood...