Word: resistent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interdependence in command, 3) keep U.S. forces deployed in NATO's airpower and ground-power shield, 4) provide willing European allies with nuclear weapons and delivery systems-controlled by Europeans-"to give reality to the European sense of participation, which is a basic ingredient of the will to resist." And in the final analysis, whenever the U.S. choice lies between "acquiescence" in Communist aggression and acceptance of a split among allies, "we must act with resolution-or accept grave losses...
...have given us a steel mill." So far, the caliber of Soviet aid has been relatively high. "The Russians are keeping their promises without fail," said one Indian expert. "Progress at Bhilai is ahead of schedule." But despite the U.S.S.R.'s best efforts, the Nehru government continues to resist proposals that would send too many Indians to Russia for technical training or allow Russian technicians to spread out over the Indian countryside...
...anything. However poor, he never begs, except for cigarettes. No one hawks pictures of the Parthenon or dirty postcards to tourists ("The Greek approach to sexual matters is so direct that perhaps they cannot imagine the possibility of vicarious lechery"). The tutelary Greek deity is Narcissus: a Greek cannot resist being photographed and will disgorge photos of himself on the slightest pretext...
...Robert McLean's quietly thorough afternoon Bulletin (circ. 718,007) paid more than cursory attention to the sale, the answers seemed clear enough. Hard-headed Contractor McCloskey, who had pumped some $5,000,000 into the News in his three years of ownership, was unable to resist Annenberg's offer to buy the rising paper, lock, stock and debt. Said McCloskey: "It was an expensive luxury...
Meanwhile, the United States and Britain were reported agreed that the Western Allies should resist, at least for the time being, Soviet proposals for new East-West talks and for banning nuclear weapons in Central Europe...