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...Crimson, looking forward to the Eastern League Tournament in Annapolis, Md., used a combination of spotty play, a great goal and a sensational piece of luck to pull out an 8-7 victory over the stubborn men from UMass...
...become him in his ill-starred winter. / But it may be too late. Fair or unfair, there is a national perception that Regan has guided both the President and himself mindlessly toward humiliation. For the moment, he refuses to leave on his own, fostering the unfortunate image of two stubborn old men huddled together in ignorance and isolation...
Mark Salzman was riding an overcrowded bus in Changsha, the capital of Hunan province, when he saw a passenger clambering aboard. The driver asked him to step off. The request was ignored, the door closed, and the bus pulled away with the stubborn rider sticking halfway out. Arriving at his destination, the man cheerfully paid half the usual fare and went...
...West mock these words as nothing but lofty sounding political deception. But are they? I have some experience with bitter disappointments in the past, and at first I withheld judgment about glasnost and perestroika. I hesitated to predict a rosy future. But facts are facts, and they are stubborn as a mule...
When Eugene O'Neill got a toothache he turned to Saxe Commins, a dentist known for his light touch. But the playwright's ailing tooth was so stubborn, O'Neill noted, that the dentist "had almost to call in the derrick squad." Nevertheless, extractions proved to be the basis of their relationship for the next 30 years. After Commins left dentistry for publishing, including a quarter-century at Random House, he gently but forcefully drew from O'Neill some of his greatest plays. "Love and Admiration and Respect" is a record in letters and commentary of a remarkably creative friendship...