Word: resisted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knew that the big shotputter could get mad as a wet bear when anything interfered with his training. What he did not know was that O'Brien also liked to dabble with paint. "He couldn't spare the time, but he also couldn't resist the opportunity to see a famous artist work close up," said Murray. Posing for Artist Hurd in a Beverly Hills Hotel bungalow, O'Brien excused himself one afternoon and went out to the Los Angeles Coliseum long enough to smash his own world's record by putting the shot...
...filibusters. Humphrey & Co. propose to change the rules so that a simple (i.e., non-Southern) majority can shut off debate. New York's Republican Senator Irving Ives, who is up for re-election in 1958, and New Jersey's Republican Senator Clifford Case found it difficult to resist. In a slow political week, they too added their names to the list of cloture sponsors...
...Hungary, far from lying down under martial law, was alive and kicking its Soviet bosses. The mighty Red army had been unable to halt the paralyzing general strike of the incredible Hungarians, who abandoned street fighting after perhaps 25,000 Hungarians lost their lives, but found other ways to resist...
...Retired four-star General Lucius DuBignon Clay, 59, onetime (1947-49) U.S. Military Governor in Germany, since board chairman of Continental Can Co., old and trusted Ike friend, who probably would resist the job if it were offered...
...striking tribute to the lasting human interest of the basic situation: boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl. It is a situation that most moviegoers have long been conditioned to accept, but in the case of this picture, those who remember the original will be wise to resist the conclusion ex pressed in the new title...