Word: resister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...companies that had been victims of the nine-year-long bid-rigging conspiracy by G.E., Westinghouse and 27 other companies, and "I've yet to encounter the first man who said, 'Cordiner, we've got a complaint, we've been damaged.' We intend to resist. It will be a neat problem to prove damages." Of course, he went on. "if we've unwittingly damaged any customer anywhere, we wish to make an adjustment." He cited a rash of suits that followed G.E.'s 1949 antitrust conviction for monopolizing electric bulbs. The suits, which...
...stage. The cell has two windows, one on the top, the other on the bottom, which are covered with collodion film less than four-millionths of an inch thick. The windows are so small (four-thousandths of an inch in diameter) that this gossamer stuff has enough strength to resist the suck of the vacuum. So the cell keeps its moist air and the bacteria...
Very few moviegoers will be able to resist Actor Sellers. Not even canny old Alastair Sim, who mugs it up as the heroine's lawyer, can steal a frame from this subtle performer who hardly seems to move his face at all. Comedian Sellers indeed is not a performer, but an actor in the best sense of the word; not a professional show-off who attracts attention to what he is doing, but an artist who reveals what he is. And what Sellers is, solely and invariably, is the character he is portraying. In playing Shaw's exotic...
...half-hour talk, he summed up his own major disappointment in office: "I wish I could say that a lasting peace is in sight." He also issued a warning to the nation. The U.S., he said, must resist the temptation to meet each new crisis with "spectacular and costly action." Instead, "each proposal must be weighed in the light of a broader consideration: the need to maintain balance in and among national programs-balance between the private and the public economy, balance between cost and hoped-for advantage . . . balance between actions of the moment and the national welfare...
Albion noted the possibility that Galvao may try to land the passengers in Brazil, where Gen. Humberto Delgado, and exiled Portuguese political leader, has taken refuge. Delgado revealed last night that the rebels acted under his authority and warned that the ship will resist if attacked...