Word: stubbornly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Filter Lucre. In Kumanovo, Yugoslavia, Slavko Mitroviski found an imported Greek cigarette on the floor of a movie theater, used half a box of matches in an unsuccessful attempt to light it, unrolled the stubborn fag, found in it a tightly rolled U.S. $1,000 bill...
...varsity basketball squad saw its 16-point lead dwindle to a precarious four-point margin before it finally defeated a stubborn Tufts team, 60-54, last night at Medford. George Harrington and Mike Donohue led the Crimson attack with 15 markers each...
...achievement is one that does not lend itself to headlines, but is nevertheless of the deepest concern to journalism. Says TIME: "Pasternak has called his book's tremendous success the 'Zhivago miracle,' but the paradox of the Pasternak miracle is equally compelling. He is a stubborn man who is not really a martyr. He is an aggrieved man and yet not an avenger. He is a man without weapons, wielding 'the irresistible power of unarmed truth.' Most paradoxically of all, out of Communist Russia, a society that officially denies the existence of God, Pasternak...
Pasternak has called his book's tremendous success the "Zhivago miracle," but the paradox of the Pasternak miracle is equally compelling. He is a stubborn man who is not really a martyr. He is an aggrieved man and yet not an avenger. He is a man without weapons, wielding "the irresistible power of unarmed truth." Most paradoxically of all, out of Communist Russia, a society that officially denies the existence of God, Pasternak has sent a deeply Christian statement of the condition of man, such as most writers of the professedly Christian West are too embarrassed or too unbelieving...
Once uncovered, a "reactionary"' is subjected to "re-education." His neighbors, his friends and his professional colleagues all "reason" with him, urge him not to drive them to the extreme step of ostracizing him. One particularly stubborn Shanghai writer managed to stand up to ten such sessions before he caved...