Word: stubbornly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spokesman except Makarios, and most well informed Britons concede privately that his return sooner or later is inevitable. A solution Britain would consider: independence for Cyprus, retention of NATO bases on the island, but no merger with Greece. One of the biggest sticking points is Turkey's increasingly stubborn insistence on partition or the status quo as the only ways to safeguard Cyprus' outnumbered Turkish community. But if good will and determination could find a way, Sir Hugh Foot seemed the man to find...
Electric shock treatment for stubborn cases of depression has been steadily reduced in the tranquilizer era. While it still may not be eliminated, it can now be largely replaced by iproniazid, reported Dr. Theodore Robie of New Jersey's Orange Memorial Hospital. He got good results in 46 out of 50 patients kept on the drug, believes that shock can now be safely withheld unless the patient is "aggressively suicidal...
...stubborn San Franciscans would not be done out of watching their team. More than 10,000 of them deserted the Bay area and followed coaxial cables to television-blessed towns. Pro fans flocked to the saloons and hotel rooms of Chico and Fresno, where they settled for football and a drink. Those with a yen for more extra-athletic excitement went to Reno and the Nevada shore of Lake Tahoe where they could watch the game and get in a little gaming of their...
...there a rival to be disposed of? Stalin would have had his secret police torture the offender, then put a bullet in his neck. Nikita Khrushchev, up against Marshal Georgy Zhukov, the second most powerful man in the U.S.S.R., brainwashed the stubborn soldier within a week, relegated him to obscurity with airy insouciance: "I saw Zhukov today. He is in good health. We have not yet decided on a new job for him, but he will get one for which he is experienced and qualified...
...long as eleven days at a time on the pretext of maintaining "peace and order." For editorial criticism of the government or even running "unofficial information," eleven editors have been arrested in the past ten months. None have been held as long without trial as Lubis. Embarrassed by his stubborn stand, the government offered to send him out of the country on a "scholarship." Indignantly rejecting the chance to retreat, Mochtar Lubis replied: "Either set me free or give me a fair trial...