Word: stubborn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trip. President Coolidge stood above the Grand Canyon. Observers wondered whether a man whose greatest quality of tact was a stubborn silence, often ill-timed, would now fit the circumstances so as to be impressive. After regarding the canyon for several minutes, the President wisely sighted a telescope on the opposite side, the bottom of the canyon, birds wheeling below...
...Army and one-time chief defender of the Communist Fatherland, was assumedly being read out of the party councils-and with him Comrade Gregory Zinoviev, zealous apostle of "The World Revolution of the World Proletariat." The struggle between these two fiery Opposition leaders and cold, relentless, stubborn Dictator Josef Vissarionovitch Stalin (TIME, June 13) had reached its ultimate crisis, for the Stalin controlled press was daily flaying Comrades Trotzky and Zinoviev as "traitors...
...While Administration friends cried "Determined!" and Administration foes cried "Stubborn!" President Coolidge once more refused to call, now or later, a special "flood relief session" of Congress...
...Stubborn Shut-Eye would surely have insisted that no U. S. magazine save Editor H. L. Mencken's kraut-liveried American Mercury would make fun of the Bible Belt. Why, Editor Mencken virtually invented that damning phrase. No month passes without its appearance, many times repeated, on that page of the American Mercury dedicated to exposing the mental fumbles and spiritual solecisms of Mr. Mencken's "booboisie" to his admiring acolytes...
...invading nine has played erratically this spring and it is difficult to forecast just how much opposition they will offer the Crimson players today. The visitors have a strong pitching staff and if they can play in top form, they can put up a stubborn resistance. The chief weakness of the Providence aggregation...