Word: resister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country. We belong first to God and next to our race." Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin, a longtime activist who has marched against Southern white racism as well as the war, conceded that many latter-day dissenters disown any religion but upheld their moral right to resist the draft laws...
...that consumers will pay more for installment purchases. Both consequences will tend to slow Britain's recovery from recession. Continental bankers predicted that the British action will lift the cost of short-term borrowing, but voiced guarded confidence that other European central banks will be able to resist retaliating with increases in their own much lower rates (3% in Switzerland and West Germany, 3½% in Italy and France, 4½% in The Netherlands...
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...like this country the way it is now," Mumma said, "but I'm going to stick with it. There's only one thing to do--resist. We've got to stop this war, we've got to change this country's foreign policy, we've got to change the way universities work...
Last week most of the anti-war demonstrators, notably those in Oakland, Calif., have culminated in violence. Although much of this must be blamed on over-zealous police and soldiers, it is clear that demonstrators who resist contribute materially to the skirmishes. The antiwar movement is fed up with being pushed around by the cops and the new mood has been transmitted to the police who feel the only way to cope with disobedient demonstrators is with a billy club...