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Morning Bouts. In the mornings, when the deputies for Austria met, the chief antagonists were the U.S.'s General Mark W. Clark, veteran of many a bout with the Russians in Vienna, and Russia's Fedor T. Gusev. The most stubborn brackets between them...
...Stubborn, glum Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, the Polish Peasant Party's leader, tried, amidst jeers, to block the steamroller. Although he and 25 members of his party, now the sole opposition in Parliament, dropped blank votes in the basket, the result was foregone. Next day Bierut named husky, hard-faced, 35-year-old Josef Cyrankiewicz, an able and energetic left-wing Socialist, as Premier. Egg-bald Cyrankiewicz is a onetime artillery officer who was liberated by U.S. troops from the infamous German prison camp at Mauthausen. He has come up fast. Right-wing Socialists accuse him of double-crossing them...
...stubborn handful of U.S. conductors (some exceptions: Toscanini, Koussevitsky, and for the past year Rodzinski) are under contract to Judson. Conductors are glad to pay his stiff commissions (up to 20%) simply as unemployment insurance; if they need a new job they will need his help. There are only 24 major symphonies in the U.S., and Judson alone has some 50 conductors on his rolls...
During the Mennonites' first ten years, more than 5,000 of them were killed off. Hounded from country to country and plagued by internal divisions, they persisted in Europe, doing their stubborn best to obey God and get along with man. They annoyed, baffled and roused the suspicions of their fellow Christians. Wrote Catholic Author Christoph Andreas Fischer...
...battle of Tours in A.D. 732."-A. J. Toynbee, A Study of History. f Scotland has been Presbyterian since the Scottish barons, inspired by John Knox, bound themselves in covenant (1557) against Catholicism and in support of the Reformation. The church became the "established church" in 1707. Stubborn Scots argue that the King of England (titular head of the "national church") becomes a Presbyterian as soon as he crosses the Tweed...