Word: stubbornly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...side are the guerrillas fighting for independence, wracked by internal dissension which often erupts into fratricidal war. On the other side are the Portuguese--a strange, stubborn foreign force which firmly believes itself not to be what international opinion nearly everywhere has deemed it: the last European colonial power in Africa...
...Church of The Netherlands as a test case to prove that the progressive wing of the church can be curbed. What is more, it seems to be winning. First there was the appointment of conservative Msgr. Adrianus Simonis to the see of Rotterdam. Then came the appointment of a stubborn reactionary, Johannes Gijsen, to the see of Roermond (TIME, July 24). Now the hierarchy of The Netherlands has been forced to cancel a national pastoral council meeting set for October...
...temporary difficulties and irritations from sometimes brash new blood." His leaving was ironic; he had begun 1972 as the front runner in the mind of almost every Democratic politician and political analyst. Although he had been on the point of endorsing McGovern several weeks before, Muskie clung to a stubborn hope. On Monday he tried to call a conference of all the candidates to reach a compromise on the California credentials, but McGovern brushed the idea aside...
Hyams is losing remarkably little money in his stubborn campaign. Empty buildings in London are taxed at half their actual value, and Harry-like Howard-can write off many of his losses. In addition, because of soaring land values and rents, the potential profit on Centre Point keeps getting larger. Real estate men calculate that Hyams could easily recoup twice the estimated $15 million in original costs and later expenses that he incurred on the project-if Hyams were in a mood to sell. Meanwhile, Londoners who have watched their city being scarred by developers rushing to cash...
...defeat to both the North and South. "As it slowly disappears under the combined weight of allied bombing and Communist bombardment," reported TIME Correspondent Rudolph Rauch, who visited the area last week, "its symbolic importance grows ever greater. Like Dien Bien Phu, which also had no particular importance until stubborn men made it a symbol, An Loc cannot be allowed to fall by either side. One U.S. adviser describes the effort to capture the town this way: 'While the North Vietnamese have to do it, they won't do it. While we have to do it, we haven...