Word: resisting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With this in mind, the committeemen shed coats and went to work, blocking out a Senate version that contained the soil-bank program President Eisenhower had asked for (but no advance payments). Plagued by conditioned political reflexes, some members could not resist adding filigree. The outstanding ornament: a proviso that growers of feed grain (oats, barley, etc.) who do not comply with 1957 acreage allotments receive special supports based on those the President has recommended for commercial corngrowers who exceed allotments...
...this), but Charlie continued to improve. Paralysis disappeared. His appetite returned. Charlie seemed convinced he was going to make it. Still weak, he will have to remain in the hospital for a month to regain his strength. Then he will be returned to his tribe, perhaps fortified sufficiently to resist the further machinations of his mother-in-law. Said Charlie gratefully: "White man, him very clever. White man magic better than black fella magic...
Primal Color. In Memphis, Bookkeeper Clara Bell Olds cashed a $6,000 check for her boss, ran off with the money, explained after her arrest: "When they shoved all that long green through the cage, I just couldn't resist...
...dream thus analyzed in black and white raised more questions than even the commission could answer. Essential to the scheme was the incorporation in South Africa of the three enclaves formed by the British protectorates of Bechuanaland, Basutoland and Swaziland, a fate that the natives of those protectorates strongly resist. To clear the black areas, thousands of white farmers would have to be moved from their farms and settled in white areas. If the black men still preferred Johannesburg to the bush, they could be forced into the national homes only with troops-an action that might well start...
...churches in the West are cynically unwilling to give or to respond to gestures of friendship, they are false to their own conviction that one ought to love even his enemies. Furthermore, such reluctance would forfeit the chance of Western churches to help the Russian churches resist the more subtle but not less effective propaganda attack against religion...