Word: resister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nevertheless, many Congressmen doubted that the economy had built up sufficient impetus to resist the recessional impact of higher taxes. A more prudent course, they reasoned, would be to reduce domestic spending-though few Congressmen could agree on the programs to be cut. Some citizens felt that the President's experts were practicing arithmetical abracadabra to justify the surcharge. "Now you see it, now you don't," siehed Wisconsin's John Byrnes after Schultze projected a $2 billion saving on the sale of "participation certificates," which, committee members thought, amounted to an elaborate form of federal borrowing...
...residents intrude on him with requests to hear a poem, to amuse them, to reassure them, to discuss their troubles? What keeps the students going through the constant frictions, the harrassments not only of the residents but also of the other students in the crowded quarters? How can they resist the barrage against their emotions and personalities...
Under the Big Top. Circus Master John Ringling never could resist a painting big enough to display under a big top, and the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Fla., has contributed a swashbuckling, 7½-ft Veronese. Dime Store King Samuel Kress left one collection of Italian paintings to the National Gallery-and a second to 18 different museums around the U.S., three of whom sent contributions to the CRIA exhibit. While most works acquired by collectors have by now come to rest in museums, some at the Wildenstein still reside in private homes. A charming...
Neither paper's music critic reviewed the creation, which band members called "a nice high school march." But the Post-Dispatch could not resist an editorial comment. The Globe-Democrat March, it said, "is reported to have three themes, one spirited, one elegant, and one blues-the blues expressing, no doubt, the melancholy of running second in a two-horse race." Besides, said the PD, it had scooped the Globe by 76 years-Composer Louis Stockigt's Post-Dispatch March was first played at the St. Louis Exposition in 1891. Gushed the P-D at the time...
...educational reasons, our colleges typically favor the forming by students of organizations for political activity and the consideration of politically relevant ideas. For instance, space is regularly provided such groups for offices and meetings. In such circumstances, it seems only appropriate for students to expect their institutions to resist intimidation and harassment. Where particular persons are suspected of violating the law or are thought to possess information of value to an investigatory body, they can be directly approached in properly authorized ways. There is no need to press the college or university into the doubtful role of informant...