Word: resister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people of Vietnam are not satisfied with the rule of Diem and therefore they do not resist the guerilla tactics of the Vietcong. Soliven warned that "You can pour money into South East Asia but if the people are not in favor of the government, money will be of no use in resisting the communists." The United States has been content to send billions of dollars to Vietnam, without gaining the loyalty of the people, he claimed...
...Kennedy came back to Washington to face his weekly press conference. He clearly felt like having one (he has been skipping them from time to time lately), but he just as clearly wanted to raise no fuss that would open him to further charges of aggressiveness. He could not resist sticking an elbow into the American Medical Association for its opposition to medicare, but he ducked a question about Teddy in Massachusetts, shucked off an invitation to become involved in a public dispute with Dwight Eisenhower. Asked what he thought of Ike's remark that the Republicans were...
...consumers and taxpayers," and for "constitutional government" too. "The American people should know the extent to which the executive branch of Government sought to bully or buy votes with political pressure. It's reassuring to know that a bipartisan majority of the House was able and willing to resist this shameful interference with the legislative process...
Craving Coordination. Although the U.S. is totally committed to the nuclear defense of Western Europe, the French do not consider the commitment foolproof. Should there be a limited Russian attack on Western Europe, U.S. strategy calls for NATO's conventional "shield forces" to resist, thereby providing a "pause"during which the U.S. and its Allies can decide what to do. The French claim they fear that the U.S. might then decide to save its main force for the moment when the U.S. itself is attacked...
...heart attack.'' Donning cap and gown at Yale's commencement exercises. President Kennedy delivered a speech on economics that was characteristically stronger on style than on substance. And even though he was trying to hold out a hand of friendship to U.S. business, he could not resist a threat of the sort that has so shaken business confidence. "If a contest in angry argument were forced upon it." he said, "no Administration could shrink from response, and history does not suggest that American Presidents are totally without resources in an engagement forced upon them because of hostility...