Word: resisted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...face of all of this pessimism, you'd have to have a skull made of titanium to resist becoming jaded. My own cranium lacking any metallic elements, I happily joined in all of the sarcastic remarks and the hooting at painstakingly scrawled letters. Eventually I was caught between guilt and disdain. On the one hand, I was guilty of complicity in this huge racket. On the other, the American people didn't deserve my respect; each day we were flooded with constituents' petty concerns and poorly articulated requests. Whiners, the lot of them...
...police force are coming, are more cautious. They realize that Arafat has transformed himself into a moderate in order to make peace and will have to curb his radical enemies. Still, they make it clear that they intend to do what they can to derail the interim plan. "We resisted the Israeli occupation," says Riad Malki, a West Bank spokesman for the rejectionist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, "and we will resist Palestinian autonomy...
...work on the disease. He voices most of Shilts' anti-Establishment outrage and gets most of the best lines. "How many people have to die to make it cost-efficient for you people to do something about it?" he shouts at a meeting where the nation's blood banks resist testing blood for AIDS, despite early evidence that the disease is being spread by transfusions...
...have laid claim to the West Bank land they call Judea and Samaria, an integral part of Eretz Yisrael, the land God gave to the Jews. Although none have yet been asked to relinquish their settlements, many fear the worst is soon to come, and they are determined to resist...
Threats of violence and civil war horrify most Israelis and divide the settlers. Last week the most respected pollster in Israel asked Jewish settlers what they would do if the Gaza-Jericho first plan is adopted. Only 2% said they would take part in armed resistance against the Israeli authorities; 11% promised to take up arms but only against the future Palestinian police. Nearly half said they would actively resist the accord without the use of arms...