Word: unyieldingness
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When Winston Churchill arrived at the White House for a visit this week, Harry Truman greeted him in an atmosphere far different from the sunny Florida holiday they had planned together. There were too many crises, old, new, neglected or unyielding, or just around the corner.
Yet Eivind Berggrav, alone with his keepers on Christmas Day, may have much to comfort him. The Christian faith renewed by his fervent words and unyielding courage is on the march in Norway, and his occupied but unconquered country echoes the ringing words of Sweden's Bishop Aulen: "Berggrav...
Left Hook. On the eighth day Delattre's Sherman tanks raced past the 78-ft.-long red granite Lion of Belfort (symbolic of its unyielding French defense in 1870-71). They speared into Mulhouse, turned north toward Colmar along the Rhine.
Maier's plan derives from experiments which upset orthodox psychological notions. He forced rats to jump at one of two differently marked cards, one of which led to food while the other only bruised the rats' tender snouts. Then he switched the cards. Result: the rats became wildly...
"Even those who have been most critical of De Gaulle the man, those who fear that De Gaulle has undemocratic ambitions, see that there is no way out but to accept him and his organization as A Necessary Expedient. It is as plain as day that the more De Gaulle...