Word: unyieldingness
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Given so many opportunities, the Penn offense moved the ball well against a normally unyielding Crimson defense. Tailback Steve Flacco rushed for 69 yards on the afternoon--more than any back has against Harvard since Dartmouth's Sean Maher had 77--and contributed 15 yards to a 54-yard Quaker...
Reagan is in the White House because of his unyielding conviction that Government needed to be restrained and military strength increased. In 21 months on the job he has forced all parties to acknowledge the validity of these principles, an extraordinary act of leadership. The debate is on his chosen...
To University activists, he is the consummate enforcer tough, crafty, impenetrable and unyielding. When Black students occupied Massachusetts Hall for a week in April 1972 to protest Harvard investment policies, it was Steiner who carried a bullhorn outside and laid down the disciplinary law later. When labor organizers sought to...
For both his allies and his detractors, the downfall of the Schmidt government came as no real surprise. His own Social Democratic Party was riven with disagreement over his unyielding support for NATO's defense policy in Western Europe. His curiously low-keyed reaction to the Soviet-backed imposition...
Policy differences aggravated, and were aggravated by, the personal hassles. Haig, who was chief assistant to Henry Kissinger on Nixon's National Security Council staff, is a devoted believer in the "Atlanticist" school of diplomacy, which insists that the U.S. must always try to act in concert with its...