Word: resister
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...Muskie is nominated, his aides will doubtless do their best to eliminate some of his worst puns from the national hustings. But once punning gets into the bloodstream, it seems to be as intoxicating as alcohol. Even that master of precooked prose, Richard Nixon, could not resist a pun on the morning after he was elected to the presidency. Referring to a presidential seal that Julie had stitched and framed for him, Nixon described it as "the kindest thing that I had happen, even though it's crewel." That conjures up the frightening vision of a Nixon-Muskie race...
...Portuguese colonies, is aiding the Portuguese war machine by supplying oil to that government from wells in the colonized African territory of Angola. In addition, for the right to operate these oil wells. Gulf pays enormous rents and royalties to the Portuguese. This arrangement enables Portugal to continue to resist the efforts of the black liberation armies in the colonies under white minority domination...
...once a robber makes his move, cooperate fully and never resist. Do not carry a gun. Says Robert McKinney, an ex-forger who runs Project JOVE: "If there is not enough money in the till, write the guy a check." That conjures up the wry possibility of the grocer, pen poised, inquiring, "And whom shall I make...
...expelled for mailing a sick friend some dog droppings. Then came a Dickensian reform school for "difficult boys," followed by a cramming academy under the direction of a terrible-tempered grandson of Robert Browning. Even at stately Stowe, a school he really liked, "Old Stoic" Niven couldn't resist cheating in an exam. He barely made it into Sandhurst, Britain's West Point...
Sears said yesterday that he would probably be called before a joint legislative committee in the next month and be questioned why the underpasses--which the legislature authorized in 1962--had not been constructed. He said he would resist efforts to revive the 1964 plan...