Word: resistible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should step in with other interested nations. Such a seaborne U.N. patrol, he explained, "does not raise many of the same problems as stationing ground troops within the territory of any country." In the House, 96 Representatives pledged support of President Johnson in "whatever action may be necessary to resist aggression against Israel...
...Those who resist change," said a disappointed Prime Minister Wilson last week, "do so at their own peril...
Parietals, to Palazzo, were only incidental. They were part of a much bigger problem. "The University," he said, "is trying to resist change. It is trying to remain a sexually segregated institution in a world that is not like that." In the beginning, Palazzo said that among other things he wanted coeducational dormitories and the total elimination of parietal restrictions...
...total self-expression. But unlike the heroes in most Renoir films, Dr.Cordelier(Jean-Louis Barrault) goes about it incorrectly and fails dismally. Cordelier, inhibited and afraid, his sexual neuroses damaging his medical career, effects the classic Stevensonian chemical transformation and becomes hideous Monsieur Opale, a sadistic savage who cannot resist kicking the crutches out from under a cripple, or wrenching the baby from any passing mother. Predictably, Opale's appearances become progressively vicious during the first two-thirds of the film; but a flashback reveals the tragic truth of Cordelier's folly; when he first became M. Opale, he felt...
...their attempts to resist the federal drive toward school desegregation, Southern officials have found a ready whipping boy in U.S. Education Com missioner Harold Howe II. Though Howe has strictly followed the dictates of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, his zeal in implementing racial guidelines in the Deep South has fostered the belief among Southern Congressmen that he has discriminated against their districts while ignoring similar imbalances in Northern cities. Last week, in an obvious horse trade aimed at rallying reluctant Southern support for its hard-pressed $3.5 billion school-aid bill, the Johnson Administration transferred civil rights enforcement powers...