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Word: stubborner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pride and Prejudice | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Spring Collection from Paris | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: The City That Will Not Die | 4/9/1984 | See Source »

...Stubborn Deficit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 12, 1984 | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 3/9/1984 | See Source »

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