Word: persistent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well-planned "March to Washington of 100,000 Negroes." Hillman has had to ask large employers to stop importing labor and raiding neighboring firms after summarily rejecting Negro employment applications. No governmental official, however, has been sufficiently tough with the proto-fascist overlords, in and out of uniform, who persist in making worse a situation that can be solved only by greater understanding and tolerance...
...furious 39-page chapter in which Clive explains at biographical length just why he no longer proposes to risk his life for the upper classes. His arguments, neither politically rigid nor in any sense pacifist, are extraordinarily hot stuff to serve up in wartime. He does not persist in his desertion; but his change of heart is not so solidly developed as his anger. Hence This Above All, though full of provocative data, is in the long run a disappointment. For Eric Knight merely mutters some phrases about the wisdom of the heart and a need for faith, dodges...
...seem politically unwise for a nation that believes in the spirit of democracy to run the risk of antagonizing subjugated democracies in other parts of the world. If any way can be found to send food to these countries, there is a better chance that faith in democracy will persist in spite of totalitarian oppression, and that democratic morale will be strengthened...
...test of "where do we go from here?", the meeting offered very few and very small potatoes to partisans of peace and progressivism. Apparently we are heading for war, an American imperialism cloaked in Luceful euphemisms, and a career of international political and economic frustration. This happy state will persist until the distant day when everyone becomes tired of it all. Which is not a very pretty nor a very proclaimable...
That apparently timeless evil of the House system, its numerical inadequacy, will persist in spite of any juggling of rents. But the Masters have, at least on paper, cleaned out some of the unfairness which has been without intention a part of the old system of assigning rooms. Prices will in the future be on a more even keel among the Houses and students may allow themselves more than a fervent hope of getting what they want for what they...