Word: stubborn
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...lanky, sullen youth turned into the beefy, bearded hunting gentleman-author who took a stubborn pleasure in denying that he was an artist...
Back in Washington after 32 days away from his White House desk, President Truman found the capital hot, humid and in the doldrums, and the country's domestic problems piled up in stubborn, mountainous stacks. The first 100 days had come & gone. Now President Truman faced problems which could not be solved by a mere reference to his predecessor's policy. New decisions had to be made -and had to be made by Harry Truman alone...
...Subterfuge no longer obscured Russia's intention to dominate Eastern Europe. The communiqué tacitly recognized the new Poland's status as a satellite of Russia. Reasonable on some points, Stalin and his delegation were more stubborn than they had ever been before on everything concerning Poland and the Balkans...
...interest to know that the Fightin' Thirteenth has been engaged in the softening-up process of Tarakan and other Borneo targets for months preceding the invasion. The success of our bombing and strafing attacks was indicated by the inability of the barbarous Nips to make a stubborn defense. Their light ack-ack and hasty withdrawal to better prepared defense positions testifies to the accuracy and deadly action the Thirteenth Air Force gave the target...
...negotiations deadlock, when picketing is most comfortable. But after more than three years of use, the slow fire apparatus of the War Labor Board was sadly worn. In Akron, Ohio, the nation's rubber capital, there was proof that the U.S. had only one certain method of extinguishing stubborn strikes -a Presidential order for seizure of plants...