Word: resister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anyone had ordered the additional tickets with the intention of scalping them. "When we ordered them a few weeks ago no one even knew that this game would be so crucial, and tickets so much in demand," one player said. But some team members have apparently been unable to resist the astronomical prices currently being offered, he added...
Retrieving Books. True to his word, Heyns called in campus police to arrest 105 students who had occupied Sproul Hall for ten hours. The students did not resist arrest and the cops were so polite that one demonstrator was even led back inside to retrieve his forgotten books. When more militant demonstrators next occupied Moses Hall, damaging furniture and files, Heyns got tougher. He summoned off-campus cops to grab 72 of them in a predawn raid; although they submitted meekly, he immediately suspended all of them. The protesters then issued their call for a strike by students and faculty...
...testify to the fact of Orwell's acknowledged eminence, and will give him semiofficial status as the Great Survivor of the '30s, as the man who knew what it was like to live Inside the Whale (the title of his famous essay on Henry Miller) and to resist absorption by the corrosive digestive juices of the British imperial leviathan...
While a young man is free to resist the draft for reasons other than those permitted by law, the resister must face the legal consequences of his action. I would thus oppose granting amnesty...
Lest there be any misunderstanding, a Humphrey-Muskie Administration will resist outright military aggression. We will honor our treaty commitments. We will maintain an adequate and balanced defense--capable of protecting our security and maintaining the peace...