Word: resister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...differences between dissent, confronation, resistance, and violence are graded. When a group is dissenting from a policy it seeks confrontation with the government; when confrontation is achieved, there is a tendency to resist defeat at the hands of the policy-makers; and when the government officials are faced with active resistance which threatens their mission, the chances of violence are high...
Action taken in Singapore, said Lee, is an example of a better solution to a problem such as Vietnam. The Prime Minister explained that the British, finding that they could not resist both the Communists and the nationalists, allowed power to go to "the most competent of the non-Communist groups." He boasted that in a free ballot today the Communist would receive no more than 13 per cent of the vote...
...cold war, however, put a chill on many of Attlee's plans. He diverted welfare funds to armaments to help block the Soviet threat in Europe, joined NATO, and ordered British scientists to develop a British nuclear deterrent. When the U.S. went to war in Korea to resist Communist aggression, Attlee sent British troops there...
Such problems defy easy solution. The Faculty is bitterly divided over these questions. But the new Dean--with Faculty support--must tackle them forthrightly. One thing, however, is certain. Should the new Dean resist the notion that law students should get some sort of credit for tackling society's ills during the academic year, he will only intensify already smouldering student discontent...
...special delight. The volume is scattershot with fascinating and sometimes trivial notes: Mozart early in his career used to send obscene letters to relatives; in 18th century London, privies were called Jerichos; Boswell went to bed with Rousseau's wife precisely 13 times. The Durants can scarcely resist an anecdote or an aphorism. The borrowed ones are usually the best, as for instance Diderot's Encyclopédie distinction between the words bind and attach: "One is bound to one's wife, attached to one's mistress." But the authors also do reasonably well on their...