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...dynasties have been so selflessly devoted to their subject's welfare. The first Brooke rajah was James, a wealthy, high-minded adventurer who sailed out from England to "rid the Malay Archipelago of barbarism." In Sarawak he found his opportunity. For the Sultan of Brunei, he subdued a stubborn civil war between the Malays and Dyaks. In gratitude for his services (plus $2,000 of Brooke's cash), the oppressive Sultan in 1841 made him Rajah of Sarawak. Indifferent to crocodiles, boa constrictors and poisoned arrows, the White Rajah lived only for his handsome, amiable people...
...section man may give more or less than the expected number of honor grades if his appeal is approved by a special "review committee." Rodman said that the committee will almost always accede to the wishes of a "stubborn" section man who can make a good case for his proposal...
...charges of treason, espionage and black marketing. The Western world bled for the gaunt, tortured prelate, mechanically confessing his guilt for nonexistent crimes before an unfeeling judge. Briefly freed by the 1956 Hungarian uprising, Mindszenty fled to the U.S. legation in Budapest, and there he has stayed, a stubborn symbol of Christianity's incompatibility with Communism...
...recent City Council meetings, certain members have called all of Rudolph's programs "ridiculous" and the man himself "inept, stubborn, arrogant--the leader of organized persecution against the poorer residents of Cambridge and Harvard students on scholarship." These members have asked for Rudolph's dismissal, hoping to abolish the post of City Traffic Director altogether...
Perfect Maze. The solution, surprisingly, has long been obvious. But while engineers knew that the laminar (smooth) airflow they wanted could be had by sucking any turbulent air into a wing's inner cavity, putting theory into practice proved a stubborn puzzle. Dr. Pfenninger worked on his LFC (laminar flow control) wing for 23 years before perfecting its closely packed slits that are only a few thousandths of an inch wide. Under each slit, a small chamber gathers the incoming air and channels it through pin-size holes into ducts that lead to streamlined nacelles hanging under each wing...