Word: pigheadedness
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Lord, who preferred to build motorcars, quit Nuffield with the observation: "I am pigheaded, and Nuffield has his opinions." He went to work for Austin Motors, became its chairman when Lord Austin died in 1941.
The Russian position in Paris last week, on which the issue of war or peace heavily depended, had less to do with Marx and Lenin than with Jean Bodin. It was in large measure a pigheaded defense of natsionalny suverenitet unlimited.
Advice to Doctors. The book's advice to young doctors makes good sense: 1) take the time to get a good, complete history of the patient's illnesses; 2) do not write down anything likely to embarrass the patient; 3) unearth, if possible, the patient's real...
"Suddenly the light of facts makes it clear even to the most pigheaded of spiritual descendants of Washington that all these things, the best in the world, are in Germany, and that the best technicians in the world are Germans.
... I have always been both interested and disgusted by the letters published from those whose narrow-mindedness, partiality, bigotry, pedantry, stupidity and conceit cause them to write to cancel their subscriptions when there appears in TIME some word, phrase, or article which does not agree with their warped, fussy, self...