Word: resister
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Like her parents, Susan seems to resist any suggestion that living in the White House will change the Fords' lives. "I'll never throw away my blue jeans," she vows. She is also determined to continue to baby-sit for the family of Congressional Aide Peter Abbruzzese, which lives across the street from the Ford home in Alexandria. In fact, says Susan, she told Mrs. Abbruzzese, who is expecting her third child, "that when she goes to the hospital to have that kid, she should drop her other two at the White House and I'll take...
...later "ratified" by the President, if only by failing to reprimand his aides, also made him responsible. Alabama's Flowers stressed that the Constitution's "take care" clause carries an "affirmative duty" to see that laws are enforced and charged that Nixon had "failed to resist even the transgressions of these laws before his eyes and ears." Republican Fish noted that this clause also implies "policing your lieutenants...
...Watergates exist, and why they are so difficult to root out and dispose of. Much has been said of the White House "atmosphere" in which so many illegal activities have taken place. Certainly only an extraordinary individual. perhaps only a movie hero, could fight such an atmosphere, resist participation in illegal activities, and hang on to his job at the same time...
Angry Greek Cypriots, who only days before had been fighting one another over whether to remain loyal to Makarios and maintain their country's independence or to form a union with Greece, now joined in determinedly to resist the invaders. Nikos Sampson appeared on television to declare his pride in the fighting spirit of his soldiers. "The Turkish enemy must be driven into the sea!" he cried. Prisons were emptied of fighting men, including 1,200 policemen who had supported Makarios and been jailed following Sampson's successful coup against...
...investigators, including one Nobel laureate, Dr. James D. Watson, declared that they are halting certain experiments in genetic manipulation of bacteria. Their reason: fear that if they do not stop, they may inadvertently loose upon the world new forms of life-semisynthetic organisms that could cause epidemics, or resist control by antibiotics, or increase the incidence of cancer...