Word: stubborn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...journalists, for United Press International from Tokyo. "I read Cheng's manuscript, and it knocked me out," says Kriss. "It is a powerful testament, akin to Arthur Koestler's tale of life under Soviet Communism, Darkness at Noon. It's an account of a brave woman's stubborn resistance to an overwhelmingly powerful regime." Kriss, who visited China last autumn, has watched with apprehension the government's recent attacks on intellectuals, students and those considered "bourgeois liberals." "Many of those responsible for the abuses of the Cultural Revolution 21 years ago are still in positions of power and authority," says...
...text. Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish" recalls an oversize catch: "victory filled up/ the little rented boat . . . until everything/ was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!/ And I let the fish go." John Ciardi celebrates "The Lung Fish," a survivor intact from prehistoric epochs: "If no/ creature is immortal, some/ are more stubborn than others." And Robert Lowell hopes that "when shallow waters peter out," he will be able to "catch Christ with a greased worm" and save his soul. The Fisherman notes, "Lowell was a Christian, and he was probably right to resort to the metaphor of fishing for his purpose. Christianity...
...Lonetree reportedly made damaging statements about himself and Bracy to a Marine buddy. While many civilian courts continue to require a unanimous jury verdict, only two-thirds of the jurors in a court-martial are needed for conviction -- meaning less chance that the defendants can fall back on one stubborn holdout...
...limit, they suddenly lose all their electrical resistance and become superconductors. This enables them to carry currents without the loss of any energy and in some cases to generate immensely powerful magnetic fields. Scientists have recognized for years that the implications of this phenomenon could be enormous, but one stubborn obstacle has stood in their way: reaching and maintaining the temperatures necessary for superconductivity in these metals is difficult and in most instances prohibitively expensive...
...favorite, Demons Begone, came home with a bloody nose and a heavy heart in an ambulance. A field horse, Avies Copy, finished third. The best or the most stubborn of them will reconnoiter next week at the Preakness. Then Belmont Specialist Woody Stephens should have someone fresh waiting for the last mile and a half. The season has started...