Word: unyieldingness
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Versilov, calm and complex, also represents the resilient man who, in an age of chaos, manages somehow not to be destroyed, protecting himself and his ideals of honor and love with a hotchpotch armory of friendly tolerance, extreme reserve, silence, outbursts of passion and generosity, unyielding pride and unexpected humbleness...
James Bernard, agent for the Capitol Laundry, countered all inquiries with an unyielding: "We're pretty well filled, and we cannot expand our service at this time."
But even the gamest team can be ground down, and as the Blue backfield promenaded all over the field Saturday, many were the grumbles from deep inside the raccoon coats. This was Yale, and early-season wins over provincial seminaries were merely so many statistics cluttering up the record. In...
Walking Up. Le Corbusier suggests a "vertical garden city" consisting of tall, compact buildings surrounded by nature. He plans for everything, from freeing "the housewife from her daily servitude" to the Assembly's "Hall of Lost Footsteps" (lobby) to his favorite project: a world museum, shaped like a pyramid...
From his book there is little for serious historians to salvage, but the general reader will find some of the best combat reporting done by an American. Much of what Middleton has to say merely underscores what most readers already know; but at least it is convincingly underscored: the unpreparedness...