Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...resist. Immediately hand over your wallet, your watch, your jewelry and anything else the mugger wants. That is the primary survival tip given by law-enforcement officials across the nation to potential victims of armed street criminals. Says officer Michael Sansky of the Los Angeles police department: "If he's got a weapon, you go along with whatever he says. You're not going to gouge out an eye or kick out a knee if he's armed...
...those two statements was a clear message: unless Poland's Communist leaders moved quickly to restore the party's control and to resist further concessions to the workers, their Soviet-bloc allies reserved the right to go in under the Brezhnev Doctrine and do it for them...
Heather E. Cole, Hilles and Lamont librarian, said that some users might at first resist the new technology of the microfiche catalog. But in the long run, she added, "it'll make the libraries easier...
...wise and compassionate artist who never allows a political message to dominate the human story. Though they never meet, the man and the woman become, in effect, antagonists. Each represents the idealism of a particular moment. The crusading journalist must reveal the "secrets" of an evil system; he must resist, as he al ways has, the disaffection implicit in self-awareness and worldliness. Better to bury himself in the bitter anonymity that she succeeds in penetrating only after his death...
...sinking. Look, the mast has gone! The hull has sprung, the captain is drunk, and the ship's macaw has taken over the chartroom! The pumps cannot keep up with the gurgling inflow of banality! Heavens, the parallels with Western civilization itself are too evident to resist! Not only are things not what they used to be, but it is so long since they were what they were that few can remember what they might have been. Indeed, one of the main uses of these big compendiums of current art is to enable the watchers on the prom ontory...