Word: unyieldingness
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To a potential inductee whose middle-age spread will no doubt fill to overflowing the unyielding dimensions of a G.I. trouser, there comes encouragement indeed. Is it too much to hope that the services will eventually allow pleated trousers? . . .
Forcing the the Latin Stones. American mind Santayana's in mind its comprehension of the meaning of progress while remaining quietly skeptical of it, and in its moderate, tolerant, and inwardly unyielding religious spirit which even in skepticism retains the training of its youth. His writing is starred with...
Publication of the details was delayed until this week. But the root fact of the treaty was already known: it embodied a common policy of unyielding resistance to any new German aggression, a common approach to the reshaping of Europe. Prewar Czechoslovakia had divided its dependence between Russia, Britain, France...
When Congress recessed, she summed up its work, dealing out pats and lumps as she saw fit. Said she: "An intransigent, unyielding, bitter-end Congress ... is confronted by an equally stubborn, unbending, unmollifying Chief Executive. . . . Members of Congress are going home for nine weeks to the grass roots. . . . One hopes...
The uncanny accuracy of quartz crystals in frequency control demands unyielding accuracy in manufacture. The wafers must be cut with due attention to the structure of the mother crystal, must be ground to within a ten-thousandth of an inch.