Word: resister
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...some of our advance work, the pros all said they were too soft for the job. They said women couldn't deal with politicians. I've found just the contrary. Advance men from Washington face instant hostility from local politicians, but those same politicians can't resist a female...
...refuge in a San Diego church. All received a general discharge from the Navy under honorable conditions, which carries no penalty and only slight stigma. Is it fair to let some go and not others, or to create a situation in which it is wiser to desert than to resist the draft? The FBI, after all, boasts of its record in catching resisters. Uneven justice is no justice. Another highly persuasive argument for amnesty: no other action could be as effective in persuading the young that once again they can trust the humanity of their Government. In this sense, amnesty...
...reader who does not resist the flow absorbs a sense of Havana at the end of Batista's reign: overripe, tainted, almost innocent. The time is generally city-night in Cabrera Infante's narrations. The punning speakers are young dementia peacocks: an actor, a photographer, an assortment of nightclub chicks. They drink, flirt, gossip, listen to music, flip tag lines from American movies at each other...
...They're absolutely hideous!" exclaimed First Lady Patricia Nixon, staring at the transparent plastic covers that had been placed on the new draperies in the White House Red Room. But the tourists traipsing through can't resist feeling the rich silk with their dirty fingers, explained an aide; the curtains would be ruined in short order. "I don't care," said Pat. "I want this house to look like my home, and I wouldn't put plastic up in my home to protect it from visitors. If necessary, I'll just have to raise...
...great monetary realignment, he said that "the whole free world has won." To that diplomatic assessment, his canny Treasury Secretary John Connally added: "I think everyone gave something, some perhaps more than others." Though the sweeping new deal in money was sensible, stabilizing and basically fair, few could resist extending Connally's game of economic Animal Farm one step farther, searching for nations that had become just a bit more equal than others...