Word: resister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Teen-age girls and Teddy boys in tight pants, neatly dressed middle-class merchants and shoeless old men in tattered togas last week formed civil defense groups in besieged Biafra, the secessionist Nigerian state that is under attack from federal forces. Largely Ibo tribesmen, they joined together to resist an invading army that was made up mainly of the rival Hausa tribe, whose members last year slaughtered thousands of Ibos in Northern Nigeria. The Biafran volunteers searched automobiles at roadblocks, practiced grenade throwing and ambushing. At a Port Harcourt automotive assembly plant, Biafran engineers rolled out their first homemade tanks...
...Having done all my usual 'duties at the office, I thought I would go down to see how the pictures by Salmon would sell. They are all of them very pretty, but I held in exceedingly well until the close, when one came up which I could not resist, and immediately repented...
...American Council on Education is a highly respected non-profit agency representing about 1,600 institutions and organizations of higher education, including Harvard. A week ago the Council called on colleges and universities to resist the demands of investigatory bodies, including Congressional committees, for the membership lists of student organizations. Rather than advising colleges to challenge such agencies as the House Un-American Activities Committee, the Council recommends that universities no longer even keep membership lists of student organizations. "If rosters of this kind do not exist," the Council reasoned, "they cannot be subpoenaed...
With the Council's large influence behind this proposal, many universities especially the smaller and public ones--will find it easier to resist the demands of a federal agency...
...hypnotized by the lure of Las Vegas, and his fling at the gaming tables provides the atmospheric opening section of this week's Essay on gambling. Ray the Shark is better known as Ray Kennedy, associate editor of TIME. As the Essay's author, he could not resist the rare opportunity of writing himself into a story. The first thing that struck him during several days of research in Las Vegas was the lavishness of the accommodations. Checking into a motel with his wife Patsy, he was offered a room with a pool. "They actually meant a room...