Word: resister
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...Firth bounds from the catatonic to the hyperactive with incredible energy, as convincing as an insouciant teenager humming Doublemint jingles or a demented superman on a frenzied ride to masturbatory heaven. Like a wild animal who can be tamed according to a set of tricks he is helpless to resist, but who can disfigure the Great White Hunter in the process, Firth never becomes really threatening. His madness is not the agony of a Charles Whitman on an Austin tower, but a private horror and a private satisfaction...
Persistently, almost rhythmically, the prosecutor repeated the question. Soon, everyone in the courtroom, including the pained witness, could anticipate it. For some, the impulse to join in the refrain was difficult to resist. In his deceptively soft Tennessee drawl, Chief Prosecutor James Neal would ask: "Now, you wanted to get the truth out, Mr. Ehrlichman?" That has been Defendant John Ehrlichman's claim in the Watergate conspiracy trial. But with searing effect, Neal shredded that defense by repeatedly showing how much Ehrlichman had known about the cover-up and how little he had disclosed to investigators...
...motion to dismiss, arguing that the issue should be decided in "an international forum or by diplomatic negotiations between the U.S. and the Six Nations." The office of New York Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz would then file an answer, and a hearing date would be set. "We will resist anyone who tries to remove us from our lands again," vows Kakwirakeron. "They will be met by whatever force is necessary. We will be here when they leave." There, as the snows begin to deepen, the impasse for the moment uneasily rests...
Ford was invited to Searsport by "Safe Power for Maine," a local citizens' group which hopes to publicize the nuclear power issue throughout the state, and to resist plans by Central Maine Power Co. to build a plant on Sear's island in Penobscot...
...often somnolent board, it is a step forward. But if the result is that money begins to dictate artistic direction, then the Metropolitan may regret the step some day. The company's musical future may well be determined by how firmly General Manager Chapin is able to resist that kind of pressure...