Word: stubborner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...teams remained tied through the first half, but Keene came out strong in the second half, using goals by Angle Nelson and Laurie St. Pierre and a stubborn defense to take the victory...
Only toward the novel's close are the layers of hate and obscenity stripped away--only when this is accomplished does Eddie begin talking with us. A stubborn, tenacious adolescent, he sees himself as a "man who has lost all but has not surrendered a fucking thing... And here, when we want, finally, to put our arms around him and hear more, he shrugs us off and retires behind a cloak of scorn, finishing. "Fuck you, cock sucking bastards! You can all go straight to hell!" But that's his problem...
...sweetness and come close to expressing the wrenching loyalties of familial love. Peter Coyote, as Rawlings' future husband, exudes steely authority from behind his gentle smile and bow tie-a humanized George Will. But Mary Steenburgen, an actress of eaglet resourcefulness, looks both too frail and too stubborn to bring Rawlings to life. One wishes Cross Creek well; one wishes even more that it were better. -By Richard Corliss
...tried to bring Hu to personalities. Peng had been too proud and stubborn, he said. Lin Biao had been too ambitious, a careerist, sucking up to Mao, then trying to kill him. Finally he came to Jiang Qing. Here Hu's anger burst. "If you were to write a biography of Mao, she would be the tragedy of his life." Then, an anecdote about Jiang Qing escorting Imelda Marcos, the First Lady of the Philippines, on a visit to Tianjin. The state cavalcade roared through the peasants, ran one down and killed him. Stop, said Imelda. No, said Jiang Qing...
Meteorologists, who subscribe to the faith that no weather is truly inexplicable, said that the drought in the Midwest has been caused by a particularly stubborn high-pressure system stuck over the center of the country. The system has been pulling rain-bearing winds from the Gulf of Mexico to Southern California and Nevada. Alicia was caused by a cooler front slanting down from Canada along the East Coast. As its leading edge crashed into the hot air over the gulf, a storm was born that soon grew into a hurricane...