Word: resister
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...SURE they will continue to doggedly resist this new invasion quite independently of receiving outside military aid. The Afghan war is not a superpower-confrontation, but a war between a superpower and a small, non-aligned nation fighting for it's survival and independence. It is, hopefully, also the last grand colonial war. The only way of imposing Pax Sovietica in Afghanistan is to bleed the nation to death. And that will take many more years...
...pretty low key. The policemen were pretty nice in general. I didn't resist arrest by going limp or anything. It seemed that the police were rough on those that did by sort of throwing them into the wagon. Other than that...
...seventh book in the series offers its share of insights and delights. John Barth claims that he became a writer by "passionate default." Edna O'Brien espouses chastity "except when one can no longer resist the temptation." Philip Roth, asked for the umpteenth time to compare himself to his "vividly transforming heroes," replies, "I am like somebody who is trying vividly to transform himself out of himself and into his vividly transforming heroes. I am very much like somebody who spends all day writing." Occasionally the interviewer gets the last word. When Malcolm Cowley attributes the phrase "a lost generation...
...Cream. Even though it may be snowing outside, no one can resist ice cream. Especially when it's in the form of an ice-cream cake from one of the many parlours in the Square. Emack & Bolio's (1310 Mass. Ave.) pies range from $8.95 to $17.95, while Steve's (31 Church) $8.95 concoctions serve between five...
...high time that the citizens of this country take seriously the words of Massachusetts' own Henry David Thoreau: "All...recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to and to resist the government, when its tyranny and inefficiency are great and unendurable...