Word: resister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...needed only an extra boost to put him over. "Just because I'm defeated in a fight," said Boiling, "doesn't mean that I won't continue to be interested in the things for which I have fought in the past." Nor could he resist striking Albert a last blow. He called attention once more to his differences with Albert on civil rights, and for good measure mentioned Albert's "certain natural district problems with the oil industry," thus insinuating that Albert, a onetime oil-company attorney representing an oil-producing state, would be beholden...
...task: "It may be that the U.S. in past years has seemed too eager to assume responsibility. One sometimes thinks that people have come to expect that everywhere disorder manifests itself, or wherever Communism rears its head there will be an American on hand to put down the disorder, resist the Communists and generally put things right...Our eagerness is not that great...The task is how to assume responsibility without arrogating responsibility. The myth of American omnipotence is a myth. The task of protecting liberty and promoting orderly development and well-being is one that must engage the thoughts...
...using its regulatory powers to coerce airlines into using the new Dulles International Airport, which the FAA runs, instead of Friendship International, operated by the Port of Baltimore Authority. The airlines, absolutely dependent on the Agency's scheduling and fare decisions, can scarcely resist the pressure to shift their service...
...universities, in their increasing dependence on government for financial support, are to maintain their traditional role as centers of free inquiry and are to encourage intellectual adventure, they must not resist influences from the government that restrict their freedom and discourage boldness in their students...
...India faces more serious problems than reconciling its propaganda with demonstrable facts. Now that military action has been taken against the Portuguese, Nehru will find it difficult to explain his refusal to resist and repel Red China's border incursions. Gone is Nehru's argument that he will "negotiate and negotiate and negotiate to the bitter end" the Sino-Indian frontier disputes. Continued backing-down will lay Nehru open to the charge that he has double standards of courage...