Word: stubbornly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city's supplies still have to cross that stubborn thumb of East Germany that separates Berlin from the West; one third arrives by rail, a third by truck, a third by barge. But governing Mayor Willy Brandt, a World War II resistance hero who looks as if he could fill the shoes of the late Bur germeister Ernst Reuter of blockade-days' fame, let it be known that his government has stashed away six months' supplies of fuel, food and medicine, valued at $180 million. If it came to a showdown, there were always the three...
There is nothing like an honest-to-God reactionary in politics to revive one's basic distrust of the voter. At the same time, the popularity of a political escapist acts to reassure one of the stubborn individualism which supposedly built the nation...
Watch the Backlash. Even so, no Democrats-and precious few Republicans-have grabbed hold of the issue with the firmness of Ohio's O'Neill and Bricker. Notable exception: the nation's most stubborn right-to-work man, William Fife Knowland, California's Republican candidate for governor, who had set a horrible example by splitting his already-squabbling party asunder over the issue...
...many as 10% of patients with high blood pressure, after intensive treatment for several months with hydralazine (trade name: Apresoline), develop symptoms resembling those of rheumatoid arthritis or disseminated lupus erythematosus; stubborn cases may need treatment with ACTH or cortisone-type hormones-which can also be dangerous (see below...
...said "non é grave" when he saw it was only 99°. That night he drank a glass of red wine and called for a recording of Beethoven's First Symphony. At 7:30 the next morning, a second stroke left him unconscious. But it took his stubborn body nearly 20 hours...