Word: stubborn
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...that moment the potent, stubborn, self-seeking farm bloc was beaten. The vise which it had clamped on Congress, the Administration and the nation (TIME, July 20) was cracked. The vote permitted the Agriculture Department to sell 125 million bushels of Government-owned surplus wheat for fodder (to produce badly needed meat and eggs) at its own price (83? a bushel)-not the inflationary price that the farm bloc wanted. It released the $680,000,000 appropriation which the Department needs for its mammoth wartime food program. For every citizen concerned about feeding the United Nations and avoiding inflation, this...
...hard to say who is making it tougher for the girls, Warner Bros, or stubborn George Brent. Brent, a rich construction engineer, is the fly in the probate. He could settle everything, but won't because Sister Stanwyck, spokesman of the trio, won't sell him the family Fifth Avenue mansion which is blocking a kind of Rockefeller Center he's building. Stubborn Sister Stanwyck won't sell because her father told her not to. Besides, she was once secretly married to Brent-just long enough to collect a badly needed inheritance from her Aunt Sophronia...
...days, the fall of Sevastopol had been near. But the Russians had been stubborn. German artillery blazed point-blank at the concrete, steel and limestone of Maxim Gorki " Fort. Bombs chewed great craters in its upper levels. At 800 yards, then at 500, the mouths of the fort's 13-in guns yawned at the attackers, so close that the pressure from the blasts crushed tanks and men, and the orange and crimson flames seemed to singe the dead. When the Germans at last swarmed over the fort, a Nazi radio reporter's voice crackled with epic exasperation...
...mere threat of an offensive based on Suez, the Axis might well force Turkey out of her stubborn neutrality into collaboration with Germany. Then Russia would have the foe on her left flank, within reach of the Caucasian oilfields. But the threat would be greater than that. Once in the Near East, the German would be near British oil-the great wealth of the Iraq fields. These fields (with Russia's) are the last big oil source for a vast strategic area in which the Japanese have already snatched the rest of the wells. The sub-harried tankers...
Good sequence: A stubborn ball fan (Matt McHugh) faces assault & battery charges for socking an umpire. He is defended by Butterfingers, who patiently tells the court that the Brooklynite feels that he can never become a part of the U.S. until his team wins a pennant, that he therefore views the umpire not as a man, but as an enemy of the community. The understanding court levies a small fine...