Word: resistent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week later Fidel asked Kasler if he surrendered. "I decided I'd say yes, and then resist when they asked me to do something." He was put in a room with fresh air, and given cigarettes and chewing gum. Though under threat of death, he communicated once again with his fellow captives. "The guys didn't recognize my old call signal, so I just kept sending my own name. Finally old Norm Wells [Lieut. Colonel Norman Wells had been one of Kasler's wingmen] came up in the next room. Boy, it was good to hear...
...stern-wheeler chunks off downriver. The boy will be back in a couple of weeks-he's just taking a vacation with Judge Thatcher and Becky-but the kind of minds who find it natural and necessary to turn Tom Sawyer into a musical cannot be expected to resist topping their concoction with a thick glop of Reddi-wip sentiment...
...male presence -- which often results in male dominance -- can inhibit discussion or even consideration of sensitive issues. Women at this University deserve the same kind of respect that should be paid to blacks, Jews, Chicanos, or any other group that decides it must draw inward to gather strength to resist those who abuse it. But when confronted with the analogy to blacks, one of the Holmes Hall males chimed, "It's a good analogy as an indication of what we think we can get away with. The danger in going into a black dinner is getting punched up. Women wouldn...
...right kind of education can create a "real unity of mankind" in opposition to the simple homogeneity fostered by mass culture. But it is simple optimism to say that schools, alone, can bring about this kind of future. Other than the traditional aphorism -- that knowledge provides the ability to resist -- Sizer gives no evidence for this belief, and the conclusions he reaches are not obvious...
...must be aware that the targets are inherently unreliable. We must also bear in mind, as the Federal regulations make clear, that targets are not quotas and that reverse discrimination is not required and is actually unlawful. If the government begins to retreat from these principles, we will resist as strongly...