Word: resister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brother to let her try it. (Henry himself has been driving one on the freeway between Dearborn and Grosse Pointe, where the chances of being spotted by a photographer are slight.) When Buhlie cast his eye on the fire-engine-red Mustang in the family garage, he could not resist taking a spin, then somewhat carelessly parked the car in a lot near the Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel, one of downtown Detroit's busiest spots. As Buhlie left the parking lot, he told the attendant...
...They knew the program would alienate some Northern white moderates, but they argued, and argued rightly, there is no other way to liberate Mississippi. Mississippi is the only state where a majority of whites don't consider desegregation "inevitable." Remembering that Reconstruction lasted only seventeen years, Missippians plan to resist until the North again tires of crusading...
...Pudding Show, now in its 116th reincarnation, is an institution, and the polite and learned do not judge Institutions: they respect them. But because this Institution is cleverly disguised as an original undergraduate musical filled with satirical and incisive comments on our times, I can't resist the temptation to treat it as real theatre...
...making money dearer, the government hopes 1) to discourage British businessmen from expanding too rapidly and importing too much, and 2) to force them to resist new wage increases demanded by the unions, thus helping to bring exports into line with imports. Higher interest may be the answer for Britain's current ills, but it is bad news for the U.S. Though the U.S. gold outflow has been wrestled under control in the past five months, Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon recently urged European countries not to raise their interest rates this year, to avoid attracting dollars from...
Until last year, Pakistan relied entirely on its U.S. alliance, confident that with Washington's backing it could safely resist any foe. But when U.S. and British military aid poured into India after the shattering reverses of the 1962 Himalayan war, Pakistan panicked. Ayub Khan and other top officials hold as an article of faith the belief that India will never use its rebuilt army against the Chinese, but may well employ it against archfoe Pakistan. Given this state of mind, it seemed only logical to break through the "encirclement" by reaching an understanding with...