Word: stubborn
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...armies moved to the House, where the first obstacle was stubborn old "Muley" Doughton of North Carolina, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. Aware of the explosive political possibilities, Muley Doughton was combing the books for every variety of delaying action...
...country's swankest mule race was held a fortnight ago at Greenwood, Miss. Five thousand Delta planters and cotton pickers packed the American Legion ball park for the fourth annual running of the event. The card consisted of five heats and a sweepstakes. Stubborn Delta plow mules, bedecked for superstition's sake with turkey feathers, squirrel tails and paper festoons, were mounted by Negro plowboys in overalls and gaudy silk shirts. Proceeds were earmarked for Mississippi's underprivileged preschool children...
...monsoon-drenched jungles of Burma, an eleven-week campaign was ended and a new star pasted to the record of leathery Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell. His weary Chinese troops wrenched the last stubborn defender from the railhead village of Myitkyina. Thus fell the last Japanese stronghold in north Burma. Now Stilwell had only to hold off the Japs and bulldoze through 70 miles of jungle and mountain to complete his project for 1944-to reopen a road from India supply bases to China...
...grey-red House of Representatives, Finland's Eduskunta (parliament) met five times in one day. In its fifth fevered session it jolted stubborn, Russophobic President Risto Ryti out of office, gave his job to Finland's one indubitably strong man, stubborn, Russophobic Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustav Mannerheim...
...recent Honolulu and West Coast papers which have drifted in here. I know this story broke at a time when it had to compete with several other big stories: the investment of Cherbourg, the flight of B-29s to Japan, the Republican National Convention. The American press, with its stubborn refusal to recognize the Pacific, played it for a very bad fourth...