Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much more opposition than the fifth course proposal. "Dean Monro has told us many times that the four course rate of study is a longstanding Harvard tradition. He has told us that many people will see this proposal as a big step to a three course program, and will resist it," he explained...
...retaliate by tying Rush to a railroad tie. Inside the shack pretentious dialogue is delivered portentously. "It's a shock to grow old," March mutters. "There is no God . . . There is a hell . . ." The adolescents cower and try to find each other. Balsam pines and wavers. Unable to resist Rush's appeals, Cilento takes the loot and starts outside. "We better deal with people out of need, not merit," she intones...
...trying to buy the paper, off and on, for years. In negotiations that were secret even by Newhouse's ultra security-conscious standards, he finally made a $500-a-share offer. The stockholders, who were dissatisfied with the dividends they were receiving, found the offer too generous to resist. To get 91% control of the Plain Dealer, Newhouse paid $50 million - the highest price ever recorded for a U.S. newspaper...
With Africa, as with other things, distance lends enchantment. Instead of comparing their experience to an ordinary job at home, the young corpsmen weigh it against the intensity of Conrad's portraits of Graham Greene's matter-of-fact spirituality, and their anticipations resist all attempts to bring them into line with actuality; the ideas have a life of their...
...leave them alone for a while? So long as the nations of Europe are protected against military conquest by the American nuclear guarantee, made more real by the presence of several divisions of American troops as hostages to our intentions, these nations have the economic and political strength to resist Soviet threats or dangerous blandishments. They are strong enough to engage in their own bridge-building between East and West, and they are quite capable of deciding when and how they want to join in our own bridge-building. Perhaps the best thing we can do for them at this...