Word: stubbornest
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...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...
Wrong Guess Again. British and Canadian troops on the easternmost sector of the bridgehead met the stubbornest German resistance. Caen held...
...world's stubbornest problems had to be faced, in sample form, last week by the once debonair Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor. He had given up the throne of Britain, and as Governor of the tiny Bahamas he might have been expected to escape grave political difficulties. At the beginning of the week, indeed, he was not even in the Bahamas. He was in the U.S. preparing to celebrate the fifth anniversary of his marriage to his chic Duchess, and he had just lunched at the White House with Franklin Delano Roosevelt. But, with the persistence...
Last week the stubbornest man in Eagle County, Colo, enlisted in the U.S. Army...
...gift horses' teeth. For four and a half hours West Virginia's Rush Dew Holt bellowed opposition, drawing breath only to mimic stridently Franklin Roosevelt's Groton-Harvard accent and inflection. North Carolina's Reynolds charged that Stalin sank the Athenia. But only the stubbornest Senate orator could ignore the fact that the galleries lay almost empty day after day. Nobody came to hear the Great Debate; though on one day hundreds flocked to see Fritz Kuhn before the Dies Committee. This week the Senate got ready to shift its burden to the House...