Word: stubbornly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...docile laboratory animal: the suckling hamster. The researchers took nasal washings from colleagues with fresh colds, dropped them into the noses of six-day-old hamsters. Two-thirds of the infant animals got human-type colds. Cold researchers rejoiced, hoped now to make faster progress against humanity's stubborn medical nuisance by giving hundreds of hamsters runny noses...
...baby was suffering from a stubborn form of hydrocephalus (water on the brain): spinal fluid, collecting in his skull cavity, caused his head to enlarge and threatened to squeeze the brain so that the child's mental development would be arrested. Some hydrocephalus cases can be treated with fair success by putting a tube in the spinal canal half way down the back and draining the fluid from the brain through the spinal canal into the urinary system. But this child, son of a Philadelphia industrial technician named John W. Holter. was in a worse plight because...
...East, Syracuse, sparked by the bulling runs of a 212-lb. halfback named Jimmy Brown, battered its way to a 7-0 win over a stubborn Army team. Ivy League favorite Yale, held to a single touchdown in the first half, started punching gaping holes in the outmanned Cornell line, won 25-7. Second-ranked Princeton matched Colgate touchdown for touchdown for three periods, then -got its smoothly deceptive attack functioning to win 28-20. Columbia Quarterback Claude Benham threaded his long passes past Harvard's defenders, led his team to a 26-20 upset victory...
...disturbances," Coon continues, "which we meet so frequently in college students appear 'prima facie' to have the same more or less serious, intractable character commonly ascribed to the classical neuroses, but I think there is evidence to indicate that they are in many instances really troubles of a less stubborn and persistent nature...
...Sheriff Duncan Harper is too highprincipled to let anything illegal alone. So Bootlegger Tallant fights him. His weapon: Beckwith Dozer, a Negro stubborn enough to demand his "rights" and supple enough to let the embattled white men think they are using him. Tallant intends only to discredit the sheriff by forcing him to defend an "uppity" Negro. But the design gets out of hand when Tallant is shot by a shady associate. Dozer is suspected, and Sheriff Harper, trying to drive Dozer to safety in the next county, is killed when a slashed front tire blows...