Word: resistent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week Kissinger took steps to signal the Kremlin that, however anxious the U.S. may be to curb the arms race, which is the central feature of détente, Washington will resist Soviet "adventurism." Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the Secretary warned that "exploiting local crises for unilateral gain"?a reference to Kremlin intervention in Angola?"is not acceptable. This nation will not seek confrontations lightly, but we are determined to defend peace by resistance to pressures and irresponsible actions." For starters, the State Department announced that three scheduled Cabinet-level meetings with the Soviets on trade...
After a half hour of taking pictures, one photographer can't resist buying Patti's record and getting her to sign it, even though he has no record player. "To Tim/Platinum nerves/" (plus a picture of an eye...) "p--tti smttth...
...think she was a queen in the army," responded Fort. As Fort spoke, Patty Hearst sat rigidly erect at the defense table, following every word, occasionally shaking her head in denial at the witness. Once, when Fort suggested she did not resist having sex with S.L.A. Member William Wolfe, she started to rise, apparently in anger; Bailey pressed her back down into her chair...
...spread them to less advanced people like the Xixi. The tribe seems to be ripe for this kind of thing--it spends its time in meaningless rituals, many of them involving animal dung, and suffers from high disease rates. But the Xixi are also happy, and they resist all of Alan's attempts to civilize them; indeed, their ultimate destruction is due not to any inherent flaw in their ridiculous way of living but to the encroachment of Western powers...
...People keep thinking that because we didn't have a revolution we failed. We didn't fail. We're taking over the system from within," he said, adding, "the old leaders have lost the will to resist...