Word: stubborner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Carter seems aware of that danger and determined to avoid it. "He's always been stubborn in his convictions," says a close adviser, "and in the past few weeks he's acquired a new one, that the Russians will use raw power anywhere they think they can get away with it. But he's still got his old convictions, too, and he's not going to abandon them...
...stubborn bands of mujahidin (holy warriors), as the guerrillas call themselves, appeared to have concentrated their fighting in two regions: in the desert flats of the southwest, mainly around the city of Kandahar; and in the mountain provinces of Takhar and Badakhshan in the northeast. Last week the Soviets found themselves rushing to the rescue of Afghan units in both sectors...
Make no bones about it. The Los Angeles Rams are one big battling family. Appearing in their first Super Bowl after 14 years as the league's perennial bridegrooms, the Rams are a motley crew presided over by a beautiful and stubborn widow who fired her stepson, hinted of plans to unload her coach and outraged her players. The Steelers, as befits the defending Super Bowl champions, sailed through their season like a proud flagship; the Rams endured the football equivalent of a voyage on the Bounty...
With Klosterman restored as general manager, Mrs. Rosenbloom is busy overseeing the team's move next season from the Coliseum to Anaheim, 30 miles to the south. No one doubts she is in charge. Says she: "I don't give up; I'm very stubborn. I wish I could laugh at myself at times like this, but I can't. I am just so darned determined...
Charles Ives, The 100th Anniversary (Columbia, 5 LPs, 1974). A comprehensive survey of the fiercely original and patriotic works that made this stubborn Yankee America's first great composer...