Word: unyieldingness
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New Tone. The greatest surprise were the Russians, who acted more jovially than at any previous international gathering. There were some flurries, such as their request for added police protection of their Glen Cove, L.I. estate, and the occasion, at Flushing, when indomitable Foreign Minister Molotov almost walked straight into...
To realize the paramount importance of this question, consider how simply other problems, which seem almost insoluble, would be resolved once we were sure of Russian intentions. We would know how to deal with the Muscovites in United Nations councils--Whether to be friendly and conciliating or tough and unyielding...
High-minded as the masthead of the New York Post* was Kultura i Zhizn's program: "to develop Bolshevist criticism of defects in different branches of the economy and cultural life and to carry on an unyielding struggle with the remnants of the old ideology and with undiscipline, laziness...
Canyons, in City and Country. But O'Keeffe's chief claim to fame lies in the brilliant hardness of her most ambitious work. Her cityscapes look as unyielding as asphalt, and sharp as broken glass; her barns are as antiseptic as hospitals; her crosses as forbidding as the...
"And second, there is that little group of shrewd men in high places who read with tongue-in-cheek and move no muscle of their faces as they inflict the cynicism of their own interests upon the policies of the nation; to influence such men without joining them requires less...