Word: resister
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...Already his ambition leaped to newer, more dizzying heights. The country needed a strong leader-why not a nearly martyred oil tycoon? As President, he'd send Bobby to beat some sense into that Ayatullah fella. Spread some Bs around the Kremlin; no way those old Russkies could resist the sight of Pam in a bathing suit. Inflation, recession, civil unrest? No problem at all in a Ewing dictatorship-at least not for Miss Elite's oldest...
Kistiakowsky said Secretary of Defense Harold Brown is a "very weak individual, unable to resist pressure from his surroundings," and accused Carter of "licking the ass of the right wing" in an effort to "play election politics...
...severe--a semester at Danbury, Conn., not UMass. Many young men turned around and said they will wait another week to make up their minds, time to see how many aren't registering. Others registered but scrawled "under protest" on the cards. Still others said they would resist only once the draft begins...
Betty Ford sat through the discussions in some discomfort. Early in the conversation she asked a poignant question: "Why us again?" She heard her husband resist a return to Washington. For one thing, he had worked with a Vice President he admired, Nelson Rockefeller, and yet their two staffs had constantly quarreled. Now he and his family had worked out a fine life, and they were all enjoying themselves. He did not want to become "an election ploy." But as the group broke up, about 2 a.m., one participant turned back to Betty for her opinion. "Whatever is needed...
...solved the problem in a novel way. He lined his idealized Main Street, U.S.A., through which all visitors must pass before getting to Tomorrowland or Frontierland, with Chinese elms. They are not quite look-alikes of their American cousins, but do grow in balmy Southern California. More important, they resist Dutch elm disease...