Word: resisted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week William Buckley Sr. was making plans for his 28 grandchildren. In a circular sent out to Sharon, Lakeville and Salisbury parents who he thought might be interested in going along with him, he announced that next fall he would open a school to train pupils "to resist the blight of Liberalism and Communism they will encounter in almost all elementary schools." The new Buckley school -for students from four to 14-should be one of the more radical educational experiments of the coming year...
...committee declared: "Let there be no doubt. Although the joint committee was sharply divided as to the proper constitutional processes, it was not divided at all as to the substantive policy announced by the President of using armed force, if necessary, to help nations in the Middle East resist overt Communist aggression...
Having just seen Baby Doll, I couldn't resist dropping over to view Carroll Baker, this year's Pudding Plum. Of course they threw me out when I tried to crash, but someone told me Carroll was actually over in the Yard being given the old tour treatment. Sure enough, a black bomb half as long as University Hall was cruising lethally along frosh row, and when I ran up and peeked in a pair of soft blue eyes met mine...
...Happy Man. So did George, who wanted only to publicize his grievance. Then one day he picked up a copy of the Hearst New York Journal-American "Give yourself up," read an open letter to the Mad Bomber. "You will get a fair trial." George could not resist answering. The J-A continued to play him on the line; slowly George's cautious replies produced enough information to send Con Edison clerks scurrying through a mass of old "troublemaker" files. Sure enough, there was George's folder...
...policy, and House-ification (and money) in University policy. But that would be dull to write, and certainly worse than dull to read. Either you have seen it before--in which case it would be repetition--or else you haven't--and are certainly not interested now. So we resist the temptation to play the record again--and instead make a stab at cutting a slightly new groove on an old, old problem...