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Chinese respected the Gimo's indomitable will, his stubborn national pride, but they had a sharp sense, that he-and they -had failed. One measure of that failure, some of them felt, was the performance of Chiang's own Whampoa Academy generals. Said one Chinese bitterly last week: "They are old and tired; in 20 years they have passed from the sunrise to the sunset." Some had turned carpetbagger. In one instance, soldiers defending Mukden watched a planeload of payday currency signed over to an army general and flown back to his bank in Shanghai. The government...
...Stubborn in a different way is the Hayes Bick, which at last report was still clinging to its Thanksgiving pumpkin and cornucopia...
...buck the stubborn peasant suspicion that wrecked last year's campaign to wipe out aftosa by mass slaughter of exposed herds (TIME, Dec. 8), the Apostles had their missionary line well worked out. The first step was usually to persuade the local governor, general or presidente municipal to put his seal of approval on vaccination by putting his cattle through the process first. Next move was to persuade the parish priest to give a little sermon. Sample: "God has brought a terrible scourge upon us sinners. But God is merciful. He has also brought the anti-aftosa commission...
...Harvard motorists, already plagued with parking problems and fines, the arrival of winter will mean new expenses and problems. Police promise that parking fines will become more prevalent, and stubborn motorists who have evaded the fair-weather forays of Cambridge may find their cars towed off the streets to clear the way for snow plows...
...Germans. Almost up to D-day itself, and while all plans for it had long since been put in motion, the Prime Minister plumped for an all-out attack against the "soft underbelly" of Europe (Italy, the Balkans, southern France). In this contest Ike proved just as stubborn as Churchill, and won every exchange...