Word: stubborner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From such exchanges, two very different characters emerge. Churchill, already 64 when the war began, seems considerably more emotional, more stubborn, more immersed in his nation's struggle ("The worth of every destroyer that you can spare to us is measured in rubies"). And sometimes, as when the British stand virtually alone after the fall of France, he can sound frankly desperate ("Mr. President, I cannot cut the food consumption here below its present level"). Roosevelt, seven years younger, is more ebullient, conscious of his greater economic and military power, yet surprisingly wary about domestic opponents in Congress markably...
Witnesses reported the fire about 10:45 pm. Two fire trucks responded within minutes, and firefighters had difficulty extinguishing the stubborn flames...
Standing beside the gentle poetry of Places in the Heart, Country looks as stubborn and haunted as a dirt farmer caught in Dorothea Lange's lens. This is an unashamedly political film, spoiling to pin responsibility for the small, independent farmer's troubled times on the shrugging shoulders of the Reagan Administration. However majestic Jewell Ivy (Jessica Lange), her husband Gil (Sam Shepard) and their teen-age son Carlisle (Levi L. Knebel) may appear in profile against the Iowa sky, they are still vulnerable to being devoured in the tractor tracks of bureaucracy. And Gil, a defiant homesteader...
...Cary Verney, a lady of the Restoration court, lamented. The playwright Aphra Behn concurred. The 17th century's female model, she said, was "that dull slave call'd a Wife." Among her fellow rebels, Fraser reports, were she-authors, she-preachers, even she-soldiers, as well as stubborn widows, unruly prostitutes and acid-tongued ladies of the court...
...reason for this gingerly approach was that the Mondale team by then had evidence of Ferraro's stubborn independence: she had sternly and successfully resisted efforts to tie her to a whirlwind August campaign schedule that she felt would be premature. Mondale and his aides feared they could not predict how she would react to heavy pressure on the financial disclosure issue. They also insist that Mondale felt confident such pressure would prove unnecessary: he had seen both Ferraro's and Zaccaro's tax returns, was convinced that the couple had nothing damaging to hide, and trusted...