Word: resistent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Latin American Presidents, many of whom had been prepared to dislike him. But Johnson proved far more charming and disarming, far more simpatico than most of them had expected-and they were won over. Even more important, the U.S. President sounded a clarion call that none of them could resist: "Let us declare the next ten years the Decade of Urgency...
...Eastern Europe, politics and economics have come to mingle like goulash and galuska (dumplings). The economic liberalization that is sweeping the area is difficult-and even dangerous-for Communist rulers to resist. Last week Hungary made a major move toward liberalization by appointing Jenö Fock, 51, a noted economist, to serve as the country's new Premier. Fock, who replaces Gyula Kállai, 57, is the author of Hungary's "New Economic Mechanism," which goes into effect next year. He is expected to steer a middle course between the conservatives, who want to keep the economy...
...preponderance of U.S. strength in Vietnam, Kennan said with regret, was geared to destruction rather than construction. "People resist Communism only to the extent that they can be shown higher and more positive goals than mere defense," he explained...
...tired old doctrine of interposition-the theory that a state government has the authority to prevent federal action it deems unconstitutional-and conjured up visions of parents being arrested wholesale by federal agents and of imprisonment without trial for anyone who speaks against the court. All Alabamians must "resist in every way possible...
...land and simply moved on, leaving behind a fearful legacy of tormented earth. In West Virginia alone, strip miners are tearing up land at the rate of 6,000 acres a year, annually creating 240 miles of "high wall"-vertical cliffs of "overburden" (discarded earth and rock) that resist vegetation, frequently slide over onto adjacent homes and property...