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...decree, issued last Friday and published Monday in the official bulletin of the Vatican, declared he "automatically incurred excommunication," and "has shown stubborn disobedience to an order legitimately enjoined upon him to appear in Rome before the authority of the Sacred Congregation...
Boston College's "Wimpy" Burtnett scored twice in the last ten minutes to pace his team to a 4 to 2 victory over a stubborn Dartmouth hockey team last night. Bob Babine scored the Eagles' other tallies and the Indians tallies were registered by Captain Bruce Haertle and John Titus in the first and second periods...
...either ignored in his speech, or hustled off to "commissions for further study." Yet previous study, especially that of Mr. Truman's non-partisan commission on the Health Needs of the Nation, has shown that federal action in these field cannot wait. Since these problems find time an ally, stubborn adherence to present programs, without forward-looking improvements, does indeed turn back the clock for the future. Countries such as England and Scotland now regret having ignored, thirty years ago, this process of decay...
...there, pursued his hobby of ornithology, housed there his collection of objets d'art (Malay silver and Chinese porcelain) and his rare Asian library. When he showed no inclination to move, the Sultan's men cut off the water supply to the swimming pool. Scot MacDonald, a stubborn man, went swimming in the rivers of Borneo instead, and went on living at Bukit Serene. Last week, however, all appeals to the Sultan's better nature having failed, he packed up his books and bird specimens and moved out. A Chinese millionaire friend, a fellow bird watcher...
...29th year in prison. In 1912, two years after Japan openly annexed his country, the radical fled from Korea and from the Japanese police, who quite correctly suspected him of plotting against their regime. In the next 33 years the world's diplomats came to know stubborn Syngman Rhee as a tiresome, zealous exile, vainly pleading the cause of Korean independence, frantically warning that Japan was a menace to peace. Even after the defeat of Japan in World War II, Syngman Rhee still blew on the fingers his torturers had mashed, still recklessly declared his hatred for the Japanese...