Word: unyieldingness
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Near the beginning of this great Midwestern journey, Charles Neumiller supervises the home burial of his father Otto, a German Catholic immigrant who had carved an honest farm out of the unyielding North Dakota plains. Near the end, Charles himself dies and is mourned by new generations of Neumillers. Between...
Union leaders angrily deny that their demands are unreasonable. Thundered Jerry Wurf, the unyielding president of the AFSCME: "Public officials play a double-barreled game. They promise expansion of services and contraction of taxes. When they can't deliver, they make us the scapegoats." In fact, according to the...
But Wyoming threw us off the back of the land. She erupts in wide wings of earth, shucking off the road like a peel of plastic on an orange juice can. A bent, black ziptop on the unyielding earth. Bare and mute. Wyoming swells to dwarf the trucks hard-panting...
What a gag like this lacks in novelty Director Blake Edwards can make up for with the trim velocity of his timing, the precision engineering of each comic contretemps. Then there is Peter Sellers as Clouseau. This idiot-savant gumshoe is one of Sellers' best creations, a creature of...
In the A.F.C., only the Oakland Raiders face an easy path to postseason play. After an opening-game loss to the Buffalo Bills, the Raiders mowed down their next eight opponents with an awesome passing attack led by Quarterback Ken Stabler, and a tough, unyielding defense. Pittsburgh, the Central Division...