Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Most Valuable Players of the National Hockey League and the National Basketball Association, and their teams, the Edmonton Oilers and the Boston Celtics, are each the sport's defending champion. But increasingly Gretzky and Bird are referred to as the best hockey and basketball players of all time. Both resist the idea. "It's silly to argue that," Gretzky says. "In my mind Gordie Howe is the best player who ever played hockey and the best man who ever played sports. Then others say Bobby Orr was better than Howe. There'll never be another Howe. There'll never...
...fate of her son and a sister who can think of little else. Therese gives the ragged visitor food and discusses the horrible man who bought her brother's death: "I tell myself that one day he will come back here because he won't be able to resist seeing what's happened to his beautiful house." And when he does? the uneasy Chavel wonders aloud. The reply: "I'd spit in his face...
Unfortunately, electronic information services are still luxuries beyond the budget of all but the best-funded public library systems. Then, too, some librarians resist commercial data banks on philosophical grounds. Says Robert Wedgeworth, executive director of the American Library Association: "Many are reluctant to offer a service for which they will have to attach...
...confided to a companion while stumbling up the side at intermission. "We made it through the first act which"-- punning in spite of himself?--"is better than last year." Observers, noting the queasy rush toward the bathrooms, doubtless agreed. But the lure of the magnums proved difficult to resist; although the lights dimmed and then flicked frantically, hundreds of champagne-soaked feet remained planted firmly in the crowded lobby...
...Elmer were still in bed. The officers blocked off the access roads to the farm. Pat called some of her neighbors to let them know what was happening, but only a few hiked the half- mile from the nearest intersection in the cold weather. The Steffes did not resist, but cooperated only minimally with the sheriff. Workers hired by the bank loaded many of their pigs, sheep and cows into a cattle trailer. They also hauled away much of Steffes' machinery...