Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dumped the horse manure at Paddy Kennedy's pub? The Maharani of Cooch Behar did, with the help of a truck. "I couldn't resist," explained the maharani, former Model Gina Egan, because it was her old friend Paddy's birthday and he was throwing a blast for himself at his pub, The Star, in London's Belgravia Mews. "Paddy has always backed my racehorse Mack the Knife, and he's been complaining that he's always lost," the maharani went on, "so I decided to send him a birthday present from Mack...
...Question. The best of the Globe staff started to dig. The paper's two Washington men began to test Capitol Hill willingness to resist the nomination. The Atlanta Journal was asked and agreed to track down details at the Georgia end of the trail. All the while, the Globe scrupulously printed every bit of pro-Morrissey news-but there was no question what the paper really wanted...
...work or sporting events. Roadside operators have also begun to buy "distress lots" of ungraded gas and sell it cheaply under such names as "Zoom" and "Whoosh." Some of it is only 60 octane, hardly enough to run a sewing machine-but the British motorist seems unable to resist a bargain...
...able to strike. Yet even as he makes such conciliatory suggestions, Powers is stepping up his demands. What he wants now is a guarantee from each of the papers that it will take on employees displaced by other papers because of merger or automation. The publishers have sworn to resist. "Labor and management," said Raskin, "can prolong their quarreling until the cake over which they quarrel crumbles into nothing...
...discussions of art, Berenson was relentlessly dazzling: "Artistic creation, in relation to its creator, is like a hernia -it has the least possible zone of communication with his actual person." Furthermore: "We lack today, with our use of cement, any sense of resistance of material; and where the material does not resist there is no longer any art. Cement is like cardboard, giving way in any direction, and adaptable to every use. Art should break the bonds of material...