Word: resisting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cuts were not restored. And the Senate's Democratic leadership, including Bill Fulbright, was irritated and glum, because chances were good that when Senate and House conferees met to put together the final foreign aid bill, they would find Dwight Eisenhower's argument pretty hard to resist, would probably have to give him pretty much what he wanted...
...calls us into his Church to accept the cost and joy of discipleship, to be his servants in the service of men, to proclaim the Gospel to all the world and resist the powers of evil, to share in Christ's baptism and eat at his table, to join him in his passion and victory...
...resist our passions, it is oftener because they are weak than because we are strong...
...Middle East, of Africa, of Asia were taking turns that caused concern as well as hope; in some, harsh methods employed new guises. But in this Geneva interval, when a basic worldwide test was how firmly nations stood on their own, how able and anxious they were to resist the reach of Communism, the results were impressive. A partial check list...
...paragraph, Hamlet-like in itself, sums up the strengths and the weaknesses of André Gide: "I hope the young man who may read me will feel on an equal footing with me. I don't bring any doctrine; I resist giving advice; and in a discussion I beat a hasty retreat. But I know that today many seek their way gropingly and don't know in whom to trust. To them I say: believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it; doubt everything, but don't doubt of yourself. There is more...