Word: resisting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Damone; Columbia). This title sounds as if it belonged to a screamer, but the tune turns out to be a rather pleasant and intimate plea: "Don't just stand there and stare, help me." Damone sells it smoothly right up to the end, where he can't resist peddling a raucous note...
...sets and lighting, extraordinary, adds another triumph to the growing list of shows he has decorated this season. The stage displays a variety and imagination which would be difficult to achieve in a less professional show. The entire production has a Radio-City sheen that is often hard to resist. A couple more rousing songs, and some chopping of the dull ones, would raise the material to the technical level of the production...
...committee apparently based its decisions on a "need" to resist and even reverse the tendency since 1930 to narrow the distance between the salary of the beginner and that of the senior professional. Except at the lowest ranks, the basic salaries have not increased as much as the cost of living, it stated...
...asserted that tax rates are too high if Congress will not enforce them. If our tax system is to be kept fair, Congress must be given "the strength to resist political pressures for favoritism by supporting a tax law that permits no favorites," he demanded...
...Saigon in the 19205, it numbers among its archangels Victor Hugo, Joan of Arc, Sun Yat-sen and Clemenceau, and boasts some 2,000,000 adherents, a private army and a pope. But Cao Dai's voluble, bright-eyed little Pope Pham Cong Tac was never able to resist meddling in secular matters. Tossing his 15,000-man army now on one side, now on the other in the delicate balance of Vietnamese politics, he succeeded only in incurring the wrath of his military Chief-of-Staff General Nguyen Thanh Phuong, who is now an avowed supporter of Premier...