Word: stubborner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Besides, if she doesn't stay on my good side, I might have to tell everyone about the hideous date she took to the senior prom. Facts are such stubborn and useful things--especially for big brothers...
Washington's tacit backing of the Khmer Rouge may have contributed as much to the diplomatic impasse as did Hanoi's support of its stubborn Cambodian clients. That sad symmetry is beginning to look like the latest blight on America's dismal record in Southeast Asia -- and the Bush Administration's first major foreign policy debacle...
Talent and stubborn individuality are Redgrave family legacies. The tradition of performing reaches back to her grandparents and includes her father, her mother Rachel Kempson, brother Corin, 50, and sister Lynn, 46 -- plus, now, Vanessa's film-star daughters Natasha Richardson, 26 (Patty Hearst), and Joely Richardson, 24 (Drowning by Numbers). In Vanessa's generation, the clan paid a steep emotional price. Says Lynn: "All families are peculiar in some way, but ours was extraordinary, a volatile, emotional and passionate mix, which probably helped us to be good actors. My parents never got us up in the morning or picked...
Hard cases, an old saying has it, make bad law, and this one has all the ingredients to bear out that adage: a stubborn judge, two embittered parents and a child torn between them. Morgan met Foretich in 1981, while he was separated from his second wife, former model Sharon Sullivan. After a whirlwind affair, during which Morgan became pregnant, the couple flew to Haiti, where Foretich obtained a quickie divorce. But his marriage to Morgan broke up after only five months, scarcely a week before Hilary was born...
...Czechoslovakia offered a stubborn reminder of the old-style inflexibility. To commemorate the 21st anniversary of the Soviet invasion, the government of Milos Jakes ordered riot police to scare off some 3,000 demonstrators who had taken to the streets of Prague. Wielding truncheons, the police arrested several hundred protesters, including some from Hungary and Poland. Warned the party-owned afternoon daily Veerni Praha: "History cannot be changed. It is necessary to know it and take a lesson...