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...twice lost to lefthanders as an amateur). "The way I figure it," said Clay, "it will take me about three rounds to figure out Mildenberger's southpaw style, and two or three more to finish him." As it turned out, it took Clay twelve rounds to finish the stubborn German...
Cautious & Stubborn. Johnson, a determined but cautious man. was galvanized into action by Truman, a stubborn man. But Johnson now faces the formidable task of getting any new fis cal measures through a man who is determined, cautious and stubborn. He is Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, whose power is such that he virtually single handed held up a much-wanted tax cut during the Kennedy Administration. Chairman Mills has bluntly told the White House that he will do his best to block any congressional action on taxation this year, and that he rejects...
What readers will find most fascinating in the book is Author Blackstock's self-portrait of Charity as philanthropist: stubborn, ironic, protective as a brooding swan, and absolutely unreconciled to old injustices. "I know in my mind," she writes, "that it is absurd, obscene and evil to hate a people, it is a form of genocide, it has no basis in reality. And yet when I think of the Germans, a vision comes before my eyes of still, unsmiling faces, branded wrists, a hysterical girl, screaming for her dead mother. And then, in defiance of my upbringing, my training...
...Even though the measure is far less stringent than many state laws, a federal law naturally has far more impact. Nevertheless, the bill is at best a modest milestone, a halting start toward ending what Housing and Urban Development Secretary Robert C. Weaver rightly calls the "most stubborn and universal of the Negro's disadvantages...
...scandalizes their skeptical liberalism by insisting on removal to the bathroom of a crucifix that hangs on the wall. Later, a man who had refused to make one of the minyan (sacramental quorum) jeeringly sells his "chance in the world-to-come" for a nickel. But Himmelfarb's stubborn faith has confounded him, and now, it seems, he would like his nickel back. It is a nice story, and Fiedler, who is on the editorial board of Ramparts, the San Francisco Catholic periodical, knows enough about the Jewish and Catholic faiths to understand that while neither is intrinsically funny...