Word: resister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Well, the boys in Freedom Square came to their senses in the nick of time, but they could not resist handing out three 100-copy "mystery packages" of the suppressed issue...
Finally the appropriations bill sailed through on a roll-call vote, 239 to 143, and went to the Senate. Lyndon Johnson, commending the House for "prudence and promptness," could not resist pointing out that the bill as passed represents "the smallest reduction ever made below the Administration's original request...
...Nyswander, "has been the disappearance of narcotic hunger." By some biochemical action that still eludes the medical experts, methadone blocks the usual effects of heroin. While on methadone, the doctors continue, the patients can watch addict friends inject heroin, or even take a test injection themselves, and still resist all temptation because they no longer get any kick or euphoria from heroin. This is true even with massive test doses, far more potent than a street "bag." And if a patient should sneak a shot of heroin, this can be detected surely and easily by urinalysis...
Part of Cation's popularity rests, to be sure, on the habits of the Civil War buff, who cannot resist buying everything. The addict knows all there is to know about the Civil War, and impatiently awaits the next title so that he can begin the exhilarating task of exposing the author's−any author's−bad judgment. Catton too is a buff; more buff, perhaps, than pedant. And because he is, he makes an ideal guide...
...Schlesinger's opinions about the Foreign Service are his own concern. What one objects to are the malicious personal attacks by a man who happened, for a brief period, to be privy to the inner councils of government. One cannot resist returning to the analogy of the visiting professor at Harvard. If, after his year had come to an end, he should write a pemphlet quoting Mr. Schlesinger's colleagues to the effect that Mr. Schlesinger was an arrogant, supercilious man who paid insufficient attention to his students (but--in order to be objective--who did write good books...