Word: stubborner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Trudeau's chief goals in seeking a home-grown constitution was to strengthen Canada's relatively weak central government. That was precisely why he faced stubborn opposition from the country's ten provincial premiers, who retain primary control over natural resources, education and health. To secure the premiers' agreement, Trudeau was forced to compromise on several important points, including an amendment formula requiring approval by seven provinces comprising 50% of Canada's population...
...meantime--despite a bomb blast anti-war demonstrators staged in 1970 to protest the presence of then-Professor Henry A. Kissinger '50 in the building--things were finally stirring in the department. Top scholars were brought back to Cambridge, partly as a result of pressure from the stubborn few who stayed through the lean years and partly to keep up in the academic rat race...
...with Israel's policy in the Sinai but concerned and even irritated over its handling of the situation on the West Bank. The tone of U.S. criticism has been insistent but not harsh; Secretary of State Alexander Haig believes that talking tough to Begin only makes him more stubborn. The fear in Washington is that the West Bank incidents will so anger the Arabs that the cease-fire along the Lebanese border, which has held since last July 24, will end. That in turn could give the Israelis cause to mount an assault against P.L.O. positions in southern Lebanon...
Paunchier, but stubborn as ever, Walesa meets his seventh child
Unlike gold prospectors, novelists must pick nuggets out of their heads. Both occupations seem to attract similar characters: stubborn loners who sacrifice time and ties for a big elusive payoff. John A. Williams, 56, has written more than a dozen books of fiction and nonfiction without striking a mother lode. He is a good writer with a big theme: being black in America. By now every honest citizen should know that racism is a national birth defect, which, in the absence of a cure, requires ceaseless applications of justice. This cry is implicit in Williams' work, though most readers...