Word: stubbornly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Herriot, "leader" of the cartel of which M. Blum was the tail that wagged the dog. If M. Herriot found that even he could not form a cabinet, because he could do nothing with Blum, then perhaps the cartel would split; and the deputies thus released from this stubborn bloc could be reformed by M. Briand, together with deputies from the Right, into a coalition that could command a majority without Blum...
Next day Chancellor Luther folded his arms while Foreign Minister Stresemann parried attacks by the Communists, the Nationalists and the ultra-reactionary Voelkische, stubborn faction of famed die-hard General von Ludendorff. At the conclusion of these forensic games an actual vote was hailed with relief by most of those present...
...Harvard team ever made a more stubborn fight than this one. . . . The driving force of the Yale team required Harvard resistance of the stiffest sort. Not once did Harvard waver in the pinches."--R. T. Fisher...
Unlike this woman, Cantain Roald Amundsen fixed his glance unswervingly upon the stage, His lean face, revealed against his companion's shirtfront, looked like the sharp and stubborn profile of a huge Norway beaver...
...late, ever lowering storm clouds have threatened to blot out M. Joseph Caillaux as Finance Minister of France. Since the Painlevé Cabinet superseded that of M. Herriot (TIME, Apr. 27) he has fought a stubborn but losing battle to balance the French budget without resorting to inflation or a levy upon capital (TIME, May 25), and failed in his attempts to devise a scheme for paying off the country's debts...