Word: resister
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...langur life as a "soap opera" that revolves around the struggle between the sexes. As in other species, the strongest males compete for control of each troop. What makes the langurs different is that the winner tries to bite to death the young offspring of his predecessor. The mothers resist the infanticide until the struggle looks hopeless, then pragmatically present themselves to the new ruler for copulation...
...basis of equality. If the Soviet Union encourages intransigence, the motive must be either hurt vanity or an attempt to foster tensions and to improve the opportunities for Soviet penetration. There is no reason to assuage the former, and it is in the interests of all nations to resist the latter...
...Liza Minnelli's new musical, The Act, he wrote: "I always thought Miss Minnelli's face deserving-of first prize in the beagle category. It is a face going off in three directions simultaneously: the nose always en route to becoming a trunk, blubber lips unable to resist the pull of gravity, and a chin trying its damnedest to withdraw into the neck, apparently to avoid responsibility for what goes on above...
...opposed to much of the present system in my country, but we have been unfairly criticized for so long that even the whites in opposition to the present regime are starting to resist this campaign of uninformed pressure...
...lunch celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Indian city of Jaipur, the President's mother, 79, gamely put on a sari. Miss Lillian never got to Jaipur during her stint as a Peace Corps nurse outside Bombay in the late '60s, but she couldn't resist the luncheon invitation: "I have nostalgia for India. I love it." So much so that she stayed on for the Jaipur Ball that night at Studio 54, a discotheque hastily redecorated to resemble a maharajah's garden. Has her eldest son ever set foot in a nightspot? "I imagine...