Word: resisting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...allowed to address the Council. In calm, precise English, Chang declared that the invasion was "an all-out effort. . . to bring my country under the domination of the Communist-supported puppet regime of North Korea." Slowly and with emphasis, Chang told the tense delegates: "We are determined to resist, and will lay down our lives. This is a crime against humanity. . . We appeal to the Security Council to act forthwith...
...triregnum, his three-tiered crown, spoke from a portable throne to a throng that stretched before him for a quarter of a mile. Calling upon the world to follow the example of "the little sweet Martyr of Purity," he asked the young people in the crowd whether they would resist any attempt against their virtue. "Si!" they shouted in chorus...
Annie Get Your Gun, of course, stands or falls on its Annie. The rest of the cast, from Buffalo Bill to Chief Sitting Bull, is perfectly adequate. The miscellaneous Indians, cowboys, etc., who comprise the cast of thousands, are too numerous. Dear old MGM could simply not resist the temptation to stage a spectacle...
Colleges and law-makers must resist alumui and citizen pressure to fire or silence those with diverse views. Otherwise this will become a nation peopled by dull men who dare not think a new thought-the students of frightened teachers...
Such plausibility as the argument had ignored the fact that a Western Europe completely dependent on the U.S. would be of little help in resisting Communism. To be economically and politically strong enough to resist Communism, Western Europe would obviously also have to be free to stand on its own feet, to do as it pleased. It was reasonable to assume that what a strong, free Europe would decide to do would be to fight Communism, not for the sake of the U.S., but for its own sake. If that assumption involved for the U.S. the risk of a neutral...