Word: stubbornest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both Warsaw negotiators were old hands at the game in which they found themselves. Tall U.S. Ambassador Jacob D. Beam, 50. characterized by some of his colleagues as "the stubbornest man in the Foreign Service.'' had, in his time, negotiated with Nazis, Russians. Yugoslavs and Indonesians. Affable. Berlin-educated Wang Ping-nan was a veteran of the 1954 Geneva conference that ended the Indo-Chinese war and of 73 subsequent bargaining sessions in Geneva with U.S. Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson...
...achieved the unsavory distinction of silencing all of Colombia's best-known papers. After thinking it over, the Medellin dailies doggedly submitted to the awkward censorship and reappeared. But their prospects were gloomy under Rojas Pinilla, who seemed to be bucking for renown as Latin America's stubbornest tyrant...
...stubbornest disorders to treat is painter's colic-lead poisoning. Two Alabama researchers report in the Annals of Internal Medicine that they have treated 19 cases easily and successfully with a trick salt called disodium calcium versenate. Lead replaces the calcium and is expelled in the urine...
Disarmament would be the best solution, said Churchill. "But facts are stubborn things," and one of the stubbornest is that the Soviet government refuses to accept "any practical system of international inspection." The West therefore has "only one sane policy in the next few years. That is what we call defense through deterrents...
...books told of battles long ago. A bookish fellow from another planet-unless he saw David Douglas Duncan's chilling pictures of the fighting in Korea, This Is War!-might have found it hard to believe that the nation was engaged in one of the stubbornest wars in its history...