Word: stubborn
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This week, Murphy, with his minutiae, Stryker, with his clients' stubborn avowal of innocence, faced the jury of two women, ten white-collar workers and businessmen. What Chambers had called a "tragedy of history" was near judgment and the bitter...
...slight, wiry Lewis C. ("Squeaky") Burwell was washed out of the Army's aviation cadet training program by his superior, Claire Chennault. When World War II came, stubborn Squeaky Burwell got his chance to fly in combat and as a transport pilot in China. One day he found among his passengers General Claire Chennault. "Brother," said Burwell, "you better get out. It's going to be a rough ride...
...King to abdicate and let his son Baudouin come back and be King. We hear young Baudouin isn't too bright, but who the hell wants a bright King? Only it looks as if it isn't going to happen because our King is a stubborn, bitter...
Scott Lucas, in an indiscreet moment, had come close to defining what more Harry Truman could get out of Congress before summer adjournment. Stubborn Harry Truman, in public at least, was unwilling to admit...
...Johnson was not a man to wait long, either for help or advice. By last week he had bulldozed his way through stubborn opponents and helpful advisers alike. He had already achieved something approaching mastery of the Pentagon, but it was an uneasy, strife-racked empire that he ruled...