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Four orders of stubborn and irreducible facts must be created. I call them the balance of power, the balance of justice, the balance of mind, and the balance of spirit. The Balance of Power. Europe ... the Middle East. . . Asia and the Far East are weak and exposed . . . Consequently the balance of power at those places must be redressed if there is going to be honest, peaceful coexistence ... Communist China [and] the Soviet Union . . . taken together will in time constitute a most formidable combination of strength . . . Therefore, the real problem of war or peace today, so far as the Far East...
...getting pleurisy and having to quit. She enlisted with the Spanish Loyalists ("vowing all the while never to learn to use the gun she was given"), but scalded herself seriously with some boiling water and was rescued from a field hospital by her parents, "whose baffled but stubborn love was always coming between her and the denouement of agony to which she aspired...
...possesses some of the intellectual arrogance of one of his chief critics-Robert Taft. He is a highly civilized man, an intellectual snob, with a snob's best qualities-stubborn convictions, a confidence in his own discrimination, and a certainty about his own judgment that would not let him turn his back on fellow Harvardman Alger Hiss, even after Hiss had been convicted. His famous Hiss remark (which he carefully rehearsed with aides before uttering to the press) is defended by his admirers as loyalty toward a friend, but it was the height of impropriety in a Secretary...
...Cambridge, Mass., Yale, stymied until the last quarter by 55-m.p.h. winds and a surprisingly stubborn defense, over Harvard, 14-6, for the Elis' 39th victory in the 67-year-old series...
...Palmer Stadium, while officials held the ball down to prevent its blowing away in a 60-m.p.h. gale (and 25,000 of the 31,000 ticket-holders stayed home), Princeton's single-wing power finally overcame Dartmouth's stubborn, mud-aided defense, 13-7. The victory gave Princeton its first undefeated season in 15 years, a top-flight national ranking in anybody's book, and clear claim to the Ivy League title, a matter further clarified the same day when a couple of Cornell T-formation fullbacks slogged through Pennsylvania's mud-caked line...