Word: stubborn
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...This stubborn behavior roused the Republican New York Herald Tribune; it urged House leaders to have their heads examined. Snorted the New York Times: "The most one can say is that they were performing a sort of sacred dance before the altar of what they took to be political expedience. . . . Their gyrations were irresponsible, eccentric and foolish...
...Dewey's unpublicized views were well known to newsmen who cover Albany. From the Dewey camp came opinions which had a decidedly knuckleduster quality. The candidacy of Ike Eisenhower? The Dewey camp hoped that the country could be "delivered" from him. Taft? An intelligent fellow, but a "most stubborn man." Convention delegates would realize that good old Bob Taft would never make a good President...
Wagnerian Soprano Helen Troubel went into a Dallas hospital to lick a "stubborn low-grade" infection after an attack...
...Hall sat the man who had his finger on this pulsebeat. Daily, at all hours, across the claret-colored rug streamed aides, colleagues, politicians, businessmen, repairmen, newsmen. The young man, who saw everyone, was the city's mayor: deLesseps ("Chep") Story Morrison, 35, handsome, bouncing, talkative, tough and stubborn...
...lift the mite. Andrew seemed satisfied, said, "I think they will think for some time before they put on any more bans." He would be permitted to worship in an Amish Church but he would have no voice in the church or be admitted to communion. To the stubborn Amishmen, who frown upon court actions, God's law came before that of men. Andrew would still be under a mite of a mite...