Word: resistant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...absence of his mother, however, all camera lenses will inevitably turn toward the photogenic William. In July the tabloid Sun could not resist revealing William and Harry's plot to throw a surprise party for their father's 50th birthday, complete with a skit written by Emma Thompson and Stephen Fry along with the young princes. (The party, the first of many events leading up to Charles' Nov. 14 birthday, nevertheless came off July 31, attended by some 100 guests, including Camilla...
...volunteer information." He had a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was "not appropriate." His public comments and his silence gave "a false impression." He regrets this. He used the lawyerly locutions of one who is using words not to reveal but to conceal. He could not resist the self-indulgent--he was the victim of questions raised "in a politically inspired lawsuit which has since been dismissed." He meant to show conviction and instead revealed arrogance--"It's nobody's business but ours...
...storm coming. If he has a place for me, I am ready," which you ascribed to John F. Kennedy [NOTEBOOK, Aug. 3], actually comes from J.G. Holland's Life of Lincoln, published in 1866. Holland claimed that Lincoln, expressing his determination to resist the spread of slavery, told an Illinois educator in the spring of 1860, "I know there is a God, and...I see the storm coming...If he has a place and work for me...I am ready." But William Herndon, Lincoln's law partner, and most scholars doubt that Lincoln ever said anything like that. J.F.K...
...venue. Don't look for them in any concert hall, though. The show consists of a financial maneuver that, if bankers get their way, will explode in popularity in the next year or two. It could spawn a new type of mutual fund that fans might find hard to resist...
...jackpot for Powerball, the obsession-inducing multistate lottery, climbed past $250 million last week, few could resist the urge to make all those dollars seem less abstract. What could a quarter billion dollars actually get you? TV and radio news spots gave us a hint: the Chicago Bulls! Breakfast, lunch and dinner at McDonald's for the next 3,500 years! Half as much money as Michael Eisner earned in 1997! We also learned that the odds of winning the grand prize are equal to the odds of getting struck by lightning on 14 occasions in a single year...