Word: resist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Adolph Gottlieb, thus foster-mothering the generation that was to make the U.S. a world art power. "Abstract expression began in my gallery," she says. "You couldn't explain it. It was like a sudden burst of flame." Peggy fed the fire as long as she could resist returning to Europe. In 1949 she established herself in her 18th century Venetian palazzo, began collecting Lhasa terriers for lap dogs and adding young artists to her fold, while gondoliers awarded her the title of "the last Duchess" for her ribald, regal ways...
...women without really knowing what it's all about. All this has nothing to do with Russia, nothing to do with any particular nation or race-it is man kind without God, the caricature of man." Very soon "none of the women had any strength left to resist. In a few hours a change came over them; their spirit died, you heard hysterical laughter which made the Russians even more excited. Is it really possible to write about these things? . . . Isn't every word of this an accusation of myself? Hadn't I many opportunities of flinging...
Massive Mechanism. The details of the wing control mechanism that changes the F-111 from a low-speed, easy-landing airplane to a dartlike, deadly, high-altitude speedster, are mostly classified. But all parts must be unusually strong to resist the giant forces of high-speed flight. Massive screw-actuated jacks pull the wings against the racing air. A new lubricating system had to be developed to make the pivots work freely...
...with Establishment forces like the Democratic Party. They will work alone rather than "work into" a sick, hate-ridden White society. They will reject the serpent's advice of most Whites, reject a broad-based coalition, and manifest indifferences to any progress less than radical social upheaval. They will resist what they feel are King's efforts to support a new status...
...Shyre-Hersey play is admirably animated by human decency. It falters because it cannot credit other humans with a like will and decency to resist the pervasive wiles of the inhumane...