Word: resister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plunged in and got away with it. Last month, when party leaders complained about his attack on the official doctrine that an ever-increasing population is essential to China's strength, Ma Yinchu roared: "Even though I am nearly 80 years old, and know that an individual cannot resist the multitude, I am ready to go to battle with bare hands and perish rather than yield...
Fortnight ago, after his bishop sternly forbade him to receive Nikita, Canon Kir reluctantly agreed to obey. But neither church nor state had any real confidence that the canon could resist if Nikita came to call. Accordingly, on the morning of the day Khrushchev was due to arrive in Dijon, two police cars pulled up in front of Canon Kir's house and hustled the furiously gesticulating priest off for a long drive in the country...
...battling in Stygian darkness across the thundering ocean, four simple Soviet lads bore aloft the torch of bravery. Soviet people are a special alloy!" One Russian correspondent breathlessly reported that not once during their ordeal had any of the four said a harsh word to another. Pravda could not resist contrasting this with the despair, terror, "fears and sorrowful prayers" left behind in the diary of the missing World War II U.S. bomber crew whose bodies were recently found in the Libyan desert...
Although he became one of the early Nazi party members with reserve status in the SS, Hoess still planned to work a farm. But in 1934, when Himmler asked for volunteers for the concentration camps, Hoess could not resist what he thought of as a soldierly return to the colors...
...join the ranks of those ready to endure a sacrifice for the sake of country and profession. I am getting old now; my blood pressure is high, my heart doesn't work properly. In spite of the strength of my will, these troubles may not allow me to resist the longtime hardships of prison life. But if I should die during my detention, I shall consider it a fit end to a life of idealistic struggle, for I have still not lost a particle of hope regarding the future of Turkey." At week's end, his health failing...