Word: resister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...motto on Alfredo Cardinal Otta viani's Vatican coat of arms" is Semper Idem (Always the Same), and the rigid Ottaviani has clearly and consistently argued that the Roman Catholic Church should resist change. As secretary of the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office, Ottaviani, 72, has diligently searched out those whom he considers modernists and heretics. As undisputed leader of conservative opinion at the Second Vatican Council, he has opposed reform as vigorously as he once opposed the idea of holding the council. But last week, as the Vatican Council's forces for change demonstrated their...
...mouth frames a silent "eleven." Then, standing alone at the rail, he continues to strike his own flank with his rattan crop, privately counting out lash after lash in seething frustration. Ustinov, who produced and directed the film and helped write the script, has the good taste to resist turning Billy's fate into a jeremiad, or Vere's torment into a tour de force...
Khrushchev already had requested a November meeting with Kennedy. As Kennedy came to see it, Khrushchev planned to say something like this: We are going to go right ahead and take Berlin, and just in case you are rash enough to resist, I can now inform you that we have several scores of megatons zeroed in on you from Cuba...
...February. He will also devote more time to his wife and four children and to his favorite hobby-island-hopping fishing trips through the Gulf of Mexico. He also plans to keep a weather eye out for other companies to invest in. It is a sport he cannot resist...
When conscience nagged, slave owners cited the Bible (Leviticus 25:44-"Thy bondmen shall be of the heathen") as justification. But the trade offered the chance of such fantastic commercial gain that few men could resist it. In the 1780s, when a man could live on ?6 a year, the merchants of Liverpool with 87 ships working the African coast netted ?300,000 profit in one twelve-month period...