Word: persisting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yugoslavia, Marshal Tito jailed his only real opposition, scholarly Dragolyub Yovanovich, a lone "No" vote in a Communist Government. Yovanovich was charged with being a "spy" for the U.S. Some time ago Tito had said: "Those who persist in hindering the creation of a better future . . . will have to disappear from the face of the earth." Since Tito made this ominous threat a number of "spies" had been executed...
...believes that private schools are threatened by their own "Seven Deadly Sins": snobbishness, bigotry, provincialism, reaction, smugness, stupidity and inertia. "If we do not open our doors to well-qualified applicants, regardless of financial status,* the Government may step in. . . . Exclusiveness, at least in a social sense, cannot persist much longer in our independent schools...
...below the average in political capacity ... I am no more fit to rule millions of men than a boy of twelve. Physically I am failing: my senses, my locomotive powers, my memory, are decaying at a rate which threatens to make a Struldbrug* of me if I persist in living; yet my mind still feels capable of growth . . . [if] the Life Force would give me a body as durable as my mind ... I might begin a political career as a junior civil servant and evolve into a capable Cabinet minister in another hundred years...
...Southerners . . . [are not] in the same category as those blind followers of the doctrine of white supremacy who persist in placing men like Theodore Bilbo and the late Gene Talmadge in positions of honor, whence they may spread their evil appeals to the ignorant...
Jimmy Byrnes admitted that there were times when "our repeated efforts to achieve cooperation in a peaceful world seemed to be meeting only with constant rebuff. But we persisted in our efforts with patience and with firmness. Today I am happy to say that I am more confident than at any time since V-J day that we can achieve a just peace by cooperative effort if we only persist 'with firmness in the right as God gives us the power to see the right.' "* He also had a large radio audience (estimated...