Word: resister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...colleague -squeezing his elbow, draping a huge paw over his shoulder, poking him in the chest, leaning so close as to be practically rubbing noses. On the phone (and he was seldom off it) he was equally effective. Hubert Humphrey once complained that the only way he could resist Johnson's hypnotic persuasiveness was by not answering the phone...
...Salts. There are two conventional ways of fireproofing wood and wood products, including paper and fiberboard. One is to coat them thickly with paint that releases carbon dioxide when heated and forms a layer of protective bubbles. This process serves satisfactorily for mild fires, but the bubble layer cannot resist intense or prolonged heat. The other system is to impregnate wood with various salts, but this weakens the wood and adds as much as 25% to its weight...
...jurisdiction. One firm may have to deal-as does Ford of Dagenham-with as many as 21 different unions within one plant. Still, the lack of notice, severance pay and worker retraining has made British labor among the least protected in all Western countries and often moved workers to resist whatever changes are attempted. This situation encourages overemployment -one of Britain's main labor problems -makes it more difficult and expensive for firms to export, and tends to make all workers progress at the speed of the slowest...
Poling, dubbed a "gentle fundamentalist," says he is "conservative though not reactionary in theological matters." During the 1960 presidential campaign, he publicly doubted that John Kennedy, if elected, could resist Vatican pressure on his official acts. Later, after Kennedy made an unequivocal statement for the separation of church and state, Poling declared himself satisfied, and the two men kept up a warm personal correspondence. In the past few years. he has taken up a crusade for family planning. The Christian Herald sometimes raps Catholic knuckles, but Poling employs several Roman Catholics and Jews in key jobs...
Leaders of the small North Harvard community, whose homes are marked for destruction by the Boston Redevelopment Authority, vowed yesterday to resist eviction bodily...