Word: stubbornly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stubborn Views. The week began with Defense Secretary James Schlesinger's farewell. Schlesinger, who had been fired by Ford, went into his office on Sunday to polish his valedictory. He was still rewriting on Monday, with 15 minutes to go. Then, with 3,000 civilian employees and military gathered in front of the Pentagon, Schlesinger marched out to a 19-gun salute and a thunderous ovation. He was erect, pressed and combed-not his usual style. Schlesinger argued: "Whether we are successful in pursuing detente or we hedge against the possible failure of detente, a military balance remains necessary...
Industrialist Howard Hughes "was just a big, awkward, overgrown country boy" in the late 1920s. Charlie Chaplin was stubborn, arbitrary, and once bet $100 that "talkies" would never last in Hollywood. Both were part of the galaxy that surrounded Actress Marion Davies during her 32-year reign as mistress to Newspaper Tycoon William Randolph Hearst. Davies' recollections, which were tape-recorded in 1951 but locked up until her death a decade later at 64, were only recently rediscovered and published as a memoir entitled The Times We Had. Hearst, who was 58 when he discovered Marion as a chorus...
...comply with the law, not the continuous pressure from the Justice Department. The Chief Justice of the U.S. District Court in Washington formally rebuked the FBI in his October ruling for its behavior, and it is a safe bet that by the end of next week, the FBI's stubborn fight to keep its records to itself will finally end in defeat...
...Have Lived in Arcadia," which Lang calls a pastoral, contains a bizarre mixture of kitsch and Shakespearean poetic form. The verse is pretty fluid and the characters draw some fascinating comparisons between urban landscapes and the unwieldy structure and pathetic decline of prehistoric creatures. Chloris, a stubborn foe of science and technology, drone long-some, polysyllabic, hypnotic lists of the members of the biological categories...
With my gear set stubborn on standing...