Word: unyieldingness
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Rain dripped steadily from the north portico of the White House, the Army band sounded ruffles and flourishes as. promptly at noon. President Eisenhower strode on to the porch. Around the necks of seven stiffly uneasy Korean war veterans, the President clasped star-spangled blue ribbons from which hung the...
Mustafa Kemal Pasha returned from his skillful but useless defense of Syria and asked for a job. "Get this man away-anywhere-quickly," the Sultan cried. The government hoped to save itself by submission to the conqueror; Kemal's unyielding patriotism endangered these schemes. So Mustafa got magnificent and...
* Only in unyielding cases do Payne Whitney psychiatrists resort to the drastic operation of lobotomy (TIME, June 22), in which nerve connections in the forebrain are cut.
It is difficult now to perceive an objective picture of Gropius by talking to the faculty. Since most of his supporters have left, the ones that remain will usually portray Hudnut as the misunderstood man, and Gropins as the unyielding genius. To the outside observer, there can be no real...
Everybody who has ever had a hangover thinks he knows all about this fashionable phenomenon; in this he is probably wrong. But on one point he is usually unyielding: he knows the world's best cure. All this misinformation was sadly scattered until two bright and breezy British types...