Word: resister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Catholics are right, and "if indeed Christ gave to Peter and his successors that Kingly authority which is surely His to give, that the head of the church upon earth might have the power to maintain the truth in spite of all error, then it is unwise to resist the loving summons of the Vicar of Christ." Moreover, said Hyslop, who is a member of the United Church of Christ, "the embodiment of the doctrine in a person is at this moment in history most persuasive in the person of John XXIII...
Jungle Screams. Although no other paper felt quite so strongly, few but Thomson's Sunday Times, which had Tony in the bag, could resist sounding off. The London Daily Sketch puckered with a mild case of sour grapes: "Lord Snowdon sharpens his artistic genius for readers of the Sunday Times." Cassandra (William Connor), London Daily Mirror columnist, was moved by amusement: "Now Tony Snowdon, as the Observer calls him [to Cassandra, Tony was 'a royal Dicky-bird'], has flown from Kensington Palace to the jungle that is Fleet Street. In a trice, the macaws, the parrots...
...another. They go south on a honeymoon that imperceptibly enlarges through the '20s like a tapeworm steadily devouring the doctor's morale as a man. She demands incessant attention; he gives it-partly for medical reasons, partly from husbandly affection, partly because he is too weak to resist: he has always had "a fatal desire to please." He begins to neglect his work, live on her money, belabor the booze. The tabloids play him up as a "playboy psychiatrist." And strangely, by a species of bloodless transfusion, she gets stronger as he gets weaker...
Pressure for such favors as keeping someone's name out of proceedings, which Richardson faced in prosecuting the Goldfine case, presents a straight-forward problem not peculiar to lawyers, he noted: the "moral" course is, naturally, to resist the pressure...
...should another "Congo" develop. He does not see what, in fact, has been the heart of the U.N.'s problem since Hammarskjold's death. The U.N. must be willing to undertake a military operation where it is necessary and where it is likely to succeed, but be able to resist any faction (and anti-colonialism is only one of these) which tries to use such an action as a "precedent" to involve the U.N. where it is undeeded or outnumbered. The tragedy of Hammarskjold's death is that the U.N. lost a Secretary-General whose strength and intelligence gave...