Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...judge went on to say, "to this un lawful misconduct under the guise of civil disobedience, grinding into the dirt the civil rights and liberties of the city's millions, is craven servility and could lead to disaster for all. If responsible officials cannot stand up in firm resist ance, the court will...
...Couple--have become prototypes of the well-constructed comedy. The elements that Simon uses--the faltering young marriage, the faltering old marriage, and the freethinking teenager or postteenager--also find their way into everybody else's comedies. And J.A. Ross's Happily Never After simply can't resist overdoing a trend...
...right decision." There was, however, no letup in congressional criticism. Chief among the sharpshooters was Arkansas Democrat J. William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who floor-managed the landmark congressional resolution in 1964 by which the President has authority to take "all necessary steps" to resist aggression in Southeast Asia. Fulbright now confesses that he played "a part that I am not at all proud of at the time of the Gulf of Tonkin. That would have been a good time to have precipitated a debate and re-examination of our involvement...
...only way to resist revolutions, he said, is to make them unnecessary...
...tools, but for all her chamber-music modesty, she was not without a sense of humor. She loved recounting Degas' remark as he admired one of her many mother-and-child scenes, "It has all your qualities and all your faults," he had said, unable to resist an acid aside. "It is the Infant Jesus and his English nanny...