Word: stubborn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President and Congress charged at each other last week with heads lowered. The country was about to see another stubborn fight over the Atomic Energy Commission's Chairman David Lilienthal...
...critics maintain that he belongs to the 19th Century; that he is shortsighted in world affairs; that he is stubborn, cold, impatient of opposition; that he is tactless ("It is dishonest to be tactful," he says); that he lacks the kind of wisdom which comes from human understanding; that basically he distrusts the judgment of the people...
...Roberts-Darby group had won 13 of the state's 19 delegates to the national convention, and would doubtless force stubborn Alf Landon out as delegation chairman. It meant that Darby-who is for Dewey on the first ballot-would make the decisions of the Kansas delegation at Philadelphia in June. Roberts, who has a reasonably tough hide, used to wince at reminders of his 1936 fiasco with Landon. Now, enjoying his role as a friendly enemy of Alf's, he pushed his belly back from his desk and nodded: "Fine. Fine...
...Stubborn old L.B., who is accustomed to getting his own way, never quite accepted the fact that Irene, his second daughter, was not a son. But L.B. saw that she had lessons in piano, violin and cooking - as well as in golf, tennis and swimming. He routed her out of bed early every morning for an hour's horseback ride before breakfast. Even now he sometimes says to her sadly: "Just think, if you had only been a boy. Aaaah...
...saved by what Edmund Wilson calls Mencken's genial and acrid relish for the flavor of American life. Even more helpful are the odd anecdotes scattered through it, possessing the sort of owlish, stubborn humor that comes from wringing a subject dry and then wringing it some more. "In late years," says Mencken, "it is me has even got support from eminent statesmen. When, just before Roosevelt II's inauguration day in 1933, the first New Deal martyr, the Hon. Anton J. Cermak, was shot ... he turned to Roosevelt and said, 'I'm glad...