Word: resister
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...made war more likely," Novak says, referring to the religious pacifist movement in the 1930s. In response to that earlier crisis, the Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, one of Novak's mentors, started the magazine Christianity and Crisis, which, beginning in 1941, argued that American Christians must fight to resist totalitarianism. Novak and other lay intellectuals plan to launch this month a similar magazine, Catholicism in Crisis. Sums up Novak: "The laity is supposed to lead in Christian reflection on this-worldly matters. And, I may add, the work several lay writers have been doing on strategic issues has been...
Those people that sponsor the ERA--and it doesn't mention women anywhere in the ERA, it doesn't mention women's rights anywhere in it, it talks about sex-they are proponents of lesbian marriage, homosexual marriage, things of that nature, which I categorically resist and categorically reject as part of a basis for a sound society...
...said that students "who have the stamina and commitment" to work in less-lucrative areas will resist the tempting high-salary offers which abound this time of year at Harvard and other top-ranked schools such as Stanford and Yale...
...race committee was offering free transportation to any entrant whose qualifying time was under two hours and 14 minutes. "I was 2:13:59," Schlesinger smiles. "I couldn't resist a free trip to New York...
...intends for you. Finally, there is the worthiest of the lot, the open-and-aboveboard enemy, who declares straight out that he yearns for your obliteration. Unfortunately, people of this type are so admirable that the temptation to convert them to friends may be overwhelming. This one must resist. If it is true that former friends make the best enemies, the converse is also true, and one would hate himself for destroying a fine antipathy through sheer carelessness...