Word: resister
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...time immemorial it has been chewed by our people to relieve pain. But we must fight to the death for the repression of drug traffickers who take the leaves and make cocaine." This puts the new President in a delicate position: some military men have quietly warned they will resist any attempt to crush the profitable business. Still, Siles Zuazo believes the army will not rebel, at least for now. Said he: "They want to cooperate...
...account of a joyous transatlantic sail in Airborne (1976). So why, five years later, is Buckley charting the same course? Because, as he explains, "the wedding night is never enough." Or, to put it less metaphorically, the first trip and book were so successful that Buckley could not resist the temptation to set sail all over again...
...resist a 43-year-old pitcher who wants to pitch every day? "I don't want rest," said Niekro. "I want the baseball." Niekro goes back to the Milwaukee Braves (1965) and had hoped to go back to Milwaukee. "Lots of Polacks, lots of bars," he said. "My kind of town...
...assemblage adjourned to the Waldorf-Astoria for a celebratory supper. Buoyed on the crest of the show's commercial prospects, the festivities were not dampened by a wave of initial reviews that were more mixed than the drinks. Scarcely a headline writer in New York, it seems, could resist pointing out that Cats was less than purrfect...
...somehow an illegal medication showed up in his pre-race tests, and Timely Writer had to scratch from the Jerome. He showed he needed the exercise at the Marlboro on Sept. 18, when he finished well behind upstart Lemhi Gold. But the fans could not resist backing Timely Writer in light of his past triumphs, and he went to the post the favorite...