Word: resisted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ever to be faced with the problem ... I flew 49 missions during World War II and was often briefed on P.W. status under the old (Geneva) rules ... To expect draftees to submit to the new code is to raise a new crop of "conchies." To expect men to resist the combination of physical and mental torture known to be practiced by the Chinese Reds without the aid of extensive training on the same level as the inquisitors is like picking a man off the street and putting him in the ring with Marciano, then punishing him for losing the fight...
...20th century it became a fact of life that millions of U.S. Negroes could not feel themselves clothed in the minimum dignity of men as long as they suffered under certain legal disabilities. And millions of Southern whites, with an intensity perhaps equal to that of the Negroes, resist the change the Negroes feel they must have. A constitutional lawyer involved in this conflict must understand men as well as the legal technicalities through which their...
Foremost in the attempt to train men to resist torture is the U.S. Air Force. At the Stead Air Force Base near Reno, nearly 30,000 airmen have gone through a course in which some of the ugliest Communist methods of handling prisoners are followed. Herded behind barbed wire for a 36-hour interrogation period, the "prisoners" are subjected to electrical shocks, crammed into an upright box where they can neither sit nor stand, forced to stand shoulder deep in water for hours of darkness, fed a mixture of raw spinach and uncooked spaghetti, made to stand naked before their...
...dethronement. On Aug. 20, 1953, El Glaoui's horsemen came racing down the hills and surrounded the capital of Rabat. Ben Youssef must go, said El Glaoui. The colons loudly agreed. The French government suspected the strength of this movement, but was too weak-willed to resist it. Approving the order for Ben Youssef's removal, Foreign Minister Georges Bidault solaced himself with the comment: "It was either the Cross or the Crescent...
Opposition in the North. To curb I.R.A. terrorism, Northern Ireland has a Royal Constabulary of 3,000 regulars and a Special Constabulary of 11,000 volunteers, mostly farmers and shopkeepers. More perhaps than at any time previously, Northern Ireland seems determined to resist union by force. The country's 500,000 Protestants cite the Republic's 1937 Constitution, which gives the Roman Catholic Church "a special position . . . as the guardian of the faith," as evidence that in a united Ireland they would be a religious minority, and subject to pressure, if not persecution. They are supported...