Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...psych is the commuter carefully tallying his "compatibility quotient" in a newspaper quiz ("Do you resist asking directions in a strange town?"). It is the applicant for a new job checking True or False on a personality test ("I have strange and peculiar thoughts." "I have never seen a vision"). Pop-psych is found in heavy-breathing advice to the lovelorn, warning girls to beware of their father fixations. It is in the domestic-advice columns telling the anxious mothers of bed-wetters that the children are resenting their "free-flowing" permissiveness. The "psychosomatic" cold and eating to "compensate" have...
Addressing a Saturday night rally of campaign workers, the candidate could not resist a word of praise for his daughter. "Valerie," he said, "is my best precinct worker." Charles Harting Percy was not simply indulging his paternal pride. In his hard-hitting campaign to unseat Illinois' three-term Democratic Senator Paul Douglas, 74, comely, honey-haired Valerie Percy, 21, a June graduate of Cornell, proved one of Chuck Percy's doughtiest aides. With sunny enthusiasm that made the task seem effortless, she recruited and coordinated hundreds of youthful Percy-for-Senator volunteers, helped set up 22 campaign centers...
...that the club, having agreed to give Rockwell both a small fee and expenses, concluded that a contract with a Nazi was no contract at all. The blame for breaking this contract lies not in the existence of pressure--outside or otherwise--but in the club's inability to resist such pressure once it had formally committed itself...
...everybody. His name is still anathema to most of the South, and many Northerners manage to resist his spell. But those who like him do so uncritically. "His position on Viet Nam is not that of my district," says Michigan's Democratic
...nine-man National Council, in which four members of the majority party take annual turns as the country's nominal President. It turned out to be too much of a good thing, for the government was paralyzed much of the time and the men in power could not resist voting an ever greater welfare state for its 2,600,000 people...