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English football needs all the cussedly unbending sense of conscience and duty it can get these days.

For some reason you can't go on strike, so you very carefully do your job exactly as prescribed, in a cussedly literal-minded way.

But rural Texans tend to shrug and recall that the weather and the land are cussedly unreliable friends.

The Wild West, it seems, is alive and kicking and as cussedly unbending as ever.

The bare facts of Hinckley were too cussedly mundane for the kind of warm prose I had envisaged when I began my Great War book.

What we have is good, old, cussedly independent Harmon believing, no matter the circumstances, that in America everyone gets a fair shake, even those who happen to be the enemy of the moment.

In successive paragraphs, Mr. Joseph can veer from the mildly academic ("sciolism") to the strained colloquial ("cussedly . . . simpatico").

"We're a cussedly independent lot," said Milton Taylor, a longtime member of the Wheat Board, and wheat grower in Henty, near the Australian capital, Canberra.

Brant, who died last year, at the age of ninety-four, was one of those cussedly brilliant outsider composers who are never recognized as widely as they should be and seem to prefer it that way.

He was noted for his outspoken behaviour, and he could be "cussedly abrasive or engagingly charming, but he could never bring himself to conform to the fist-clenching, grim-faced trait of most professional sportsmen".

The 16V Fiat Tipo which Dee was driving cussedly through the streets of London to his home in Tooting in one of the most fun cars to appear on the market, at an affordable price, for some time.

Bryce-Smith enjoyed secure tenure at Reading, but the culture of many of today's universities would be much less tolerant of so cussedly independent a figure - as the Royal Court drama, The Heretic, about a climate-questioning scientist, highlighted this year.

"Having been cussedly Indo-centric for so long," the magazine said in a editorial in its last issue, "with foreign policy conforming to ideology rather than reality, the politicians and bureaucrats running the country seem incapable of learning to think globally - of tailoring international changes to fit the country's vital interests."