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Politicians and pundits had begun to speculate on a fascinating possibility: if the South's presidential electors want to be stubborn about Term IV, they can refuse to vote for the Party's presidential nominee. Precedent, rather than a Constitutional rule, is all that prompts them to string along with the people's choice. If they wish, they can return the 155-year-old Electoral College system to its original intent: to choose the best man for President, according to the electors' lights. Theoretically, the electors could disagree with the voters-even if their states...
...Allied Expeditionary Force battled two stubborn foes. One of them, the Germans, was reasonably predictable. The other, the weather, defied close analysis and for that reason gave the Allied high command the kind of trouble it had hoped to avoid...
Midway between the Tyrrhenian and the Adriatic the Germans seemed firmer. Mines, demolitions, difficult country, stubborn rear guards impeded pursuit of the long, weary German columns winding up the rutted mountain roads. But General Sir Oliver Leese's Eighth Army slogged steadily at their heels, captured Avezzano, virtually cleared the lateral highway from Rome to the Adriatic...
...Were the stubborn Poles bowing at last to stubborn Russia? In London, the Polish National Council hotly debated the position of Russophobe General Kazimierz Sosnkowski, Commander in Chief of the Polish armies and designated successor to exiled President Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz. An ultranationalist of the old Pilsudski military clique, General Sosnkowski had long been anathema to Moscow, more potent than moderate Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk...
...stubborn Peter sidestepped the main issue, the question of a plebiscite to determine whether his people want him back. Churchill urged him to promise the plebiscite now. Peter refused; would Tito yield in his demand for a popular vote...