Word: resisting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CIVIL WAR IN PICTURES, by Fletcher Pratt (256 pp.; Holt; $10), systematically works a vein that the Civil War industry, publishing division, has often pecked at before. The drawings especially still have an attraction, mostly gruesome, that is hard to resist...
...four non-union barbers cannot resist union invasion, their prices will jump from the current $1.15 to the union's $1.50 rate...
...simultaneously providing itself with a "captive market" and depriving competitors of a customer. But Euclid's former President Raymond Armington (who now runs Euclid as a G.M. unit) explained that his family-owned company, short of money for diversification, had fallen into "a very vulnerable position" to resist big competitors. "It would be a fine thing," said Armington, "if small family companies like Euclid could continue to stay small and independent. The fact remains that Euclid has just gone into a market which required large finances, resources and facilities. But it didn't have the resources...
...Fellows. Famous during this period for his fiery reviews in such liberal intellectual journals as The Nation and The New Republic, he had nevertheless restricted his scholarly endeavors, for the most part, to respectably antique subjects. When James Joyce published his last and longest book, however, Levin could not resist penning a review called "On First Looking Into Finnegans Wake." He was one of the first critics courageous enough to probe the obscurities of Joyce's "monomyth" and Joyce himself praised the review highly for its critical acumen...
...which would fiercely resist any U.N. foray into race relations in the South, abstained in last week's vote. Though some advisers acknowledge South Africa's legal case, the U.S. hesitates to side with South Africa even when it is technically right. Officially, the U.S. takes the stand that the Arab-Asian motion is not "the best way to achieve constructive results," on the ground that U.N. discussion of South Africa's restrictive policies would only harden white South Africa's support of apartheid...