Word: resistible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Galvanized NATO. As the Rumanians prepared to resist (see following story), so did the Yugoslavs, though a direct Soviet attack on the premier rebels of the Communist camp seemed ruled out by geography. Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito and Ceausescu conferred on common defense plans in the event that both nations should be struck simultaneously. Tito then canceled all army leaves and recalled some army reserves. Yugoslav tanks, in a pointed show of force, rumbled through Belgrade and moved into position along the Bulgarian border. Together, the Yugoslav and Rumanian armies total some 395,000 men. Most Yugoslav observers doubted...
Cioran contends that the only common ground between men-believers and nonbelievers alike-is the illogical temptation to exist, to resist the acceptance of nothingness. The difficult duty of man then becomes to combat both his doubts and certitudes, and to hurl himself toward a silent, detached state of unreason. He sees the philosopher's task not as pointing out the truth but rather as showing the way toward freedom through acceptance of futility, the only tenable stance for the conscious man. "After the banality of the abyss, what miracles in being!" Cioran writes. "To exist is a habit...
Only his heirs could care whether a millionaire throws away $6,000. But veteran horsemen could not resist a tsk-tsk or two when Cincinnati Industrialist Lloyd Miller laid out that sum for a thoroughbred filly at the 1966 yearling auctions in Keeneland, Ky. The youngster's sire, Persian Road II, was so poorly regarded as a stallion that he later sold for only $6,000. Her dam, Home by Dark, had never raced and was stone-deaf to boot. The filly herself was more the size of a Shetland pony than a race horse and the only thing...
Even Ramblin Jack Elliot, an established and respected member of the folk community, could not resist the temptation to incorporate the elecric into his act--during his set in the Saturday night concert he brought two members of Taj Mahal's blues band on stage to accompany him on a number they obviously had not rehearsed beforehand...
Later in the apartment Murray couldn't resist, he put his arm around Sylvia; he wanted to tell her a secret so that he could whisper in her ear again, but he couldn't think of one so he just told her that...