Word: persistent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hartford, Connecticut's Democratic Governor Abraham A. Ribicoff came to a high boil when he read in a pamphlet put out by the state government workers' union: "The C.I.O. won't give up on major issues, and will connive, persist and annoy or do anything to get what you [the workers] have a right to have." Rumbled Ribicoff: "Anyone caught conniving or annoying ... in any department of the state government while I am governor will be fired on the spot...
...abhorrence must therefore be regarded as an eccentricity. One can admire the eccentric who makes sacrifices that he may persist in his views, but it is hardly appropriate to endanger the national safety so that he can practice his ideology without sacrifice...
...transported them. Most medical textbooks have copied each other's statements that the effect of narcotics is uniformly pleasant. But most people who try a couple of shots out of curiosity find the effects (including nausea and vomiting) so unpleasant that they stop right there. Only a few persist and become slaves to the drugs. Why the difference? Three researchers at Harvard Medical School suspected that to become an addict, an individual needs not only persistence but a basic predisposition. Drs. John M. von Felsinger, Louis Lasagna and Henry K. Beecher ran careful tests with 20 young...
HANOVER, N.H., Dec. 5--Although the Dartmouth Athletic Council insists that DeOrmand "Tuss" McLaughry has resigned as head football coach here, strong rumors persist that the Dartmouth coach has been forced to leave because of the team's poor showing this season...
Coleridge spoke of A Midsummer Night's Dream as "the lyrical dramatized," but its glories persist in being a great deal more lyrical than dramatic. Hence this is A Midsummer Night's Dream treated, as in 19th century days, as a kind of operatic spectacle, and in much the same 19th century style. It is a Dream that uses, as did a Kean or a Beerbohm Tree, Mendelssohn's enchantingly equivalent score; a Dream employing the classic patterns of romantic ballets; a Dream mounted with lush, moonlit décor evoking Poe's world rather than...