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...official U.S. policy at the time, and that he, busy with running for mayor of New York, didn't know about the shipments until shortly before they stopped. Morris further maintained that he did not get a penny, personally, from the tanker deal. But South Dakota's stubborn Republican Senator Karl Mundt wanted to know: "What was your share of [the Morris law firm's] $158,000 in fees?" To keep his temper, Morris counted slowly, "One . . . two . . . three . . ." and then said he did not know. Mundt estimated $30,000. With a put-upon air, Morris...
...care how long you investigate. You can shoot me if you like, but I am not going to confess." It did him no good. The "masses present," said Shanghai's Communist Liberation Daily, merely became angry; they demanded his arrest anyway. "Thus was one more stubborn tiger sniffed out and exterminated...
...Goshawk is the story of one man's attempt to learn the ancient art for himself. In Author T. H. White's case, the attempt grew mostly out of an urge to pit himself against an exacting challenge, as another man might set out to climb a stubborn mountain. White, the author of a charming Arthurian tale, The Sword in the Stone, and of an excellent small novel, Mistress Masham's Repose, tells his story with an art and force that make it a book to remember...
...best examples of the cyclical theory of history. It is unfortunate however that destiny has never allowed the Common to become more than a dust-bowl. One writer of local history has suggested that the next monument be "not of marble or bronze but good, stubborn grass seed...
...traditional color and ancient ceremony. And the royal family was something much more, though more intangible: the visible embodiment of good form-what the British call "decency." King George's quiet courage, his unostentatious persistence in meeting the everyday duties of his job, personified to Britons their own stubborn refusal to be downed by adversity...