Word: stubborner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wounding the Democratic Party now seems great indeed." Carl T. Rowan, the most widely circulated black columnist, warned that Jackson might be stirring a white backlash that would help re-elect Reagan, "in which case Jackson is going to have to face the conscience-searing question: Why, in his stubborn embrace of a few black demagogues, he has made it so easy for the Reaganites to appeal to white racism...
...carrier is money. Bourgeois parents reward their sons for lying about money. The surest way out of a sticky situation is bribery. Currency is as counterfeit as the system it supports. A young man (Christian Patey) unknowingly passes a phony 500-franc note, but be cause his stubborn rectitude marks him as an alien in the kingdom of greed, he must suf fer an almost comic series of calamities: fired from his job, then jailed, then abandoned by his wife (Caroline Lang). His child must die. Finally, his spirit purified into psychosis, Yvon must kill...
...farmer continued to till his tiny plot. Afterward, when asked why he did not seek cover, he replied, "If I waited for the fighting to stop, I would never get the soil ready for planting. The seasons don't stop for wars." In its own weary, puzzling, stubborn way, neither does Beirut...
...Stubborn Deficit...
...YORK--Patrick Ewing scored 18 points as second-ranked Georgetown overcame stubborn Providence in the second half for a 70-50 Big East Conference quarterfinal basketball victory last night...