Word: unyieldingness
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Forrestal's decision to knock J.C.S. heads together and get them to agree on a general plan for the nation's defense was the climax of months of wrangling. It followed two stern warnings, the first from the Finletter Commission (TIME, Jan. 19), the second from the more...
Evans is a wry, shy little man with an air of worried thoughtfulness. He is courtly and attentive to critical opinions he doesn't share, but unyielding about his own. There is nothing wry, shy or self-conscious about his approach to photography. He looks for "sorts of perfection...
"In the same way Protestants are inclined to be unyielding on problems of the public school because they suspect the hierarchy, at least, of being inimical to the whole idea of a public school system, which Protestants, as well as our secular democrats, regard as one of the foundation stones...
While Dr. Shimer and two of his professors argued with the trustees, students marched around the campus bearing placards: "We Want Shimer," "Let Him without Sin Cast the First Stone." Marietta's trustees were unyielding. Dr. Shimer at last agreed to resign.
It thus becomes fairly obvious that the situation should be remedied, but there are also reasons for maintaining the status quo. One is that any student walking through an open Wigglesworth Gate would immediately fall into the half-mile-deep pit on the other side. But there is another, far...