Word: resisting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since it joined the U.N., South Africa has persistently invoked this Charter article to resist U.N. inquiries into the question of racial discrimination in the South African Union. Long before its present intolerant leadership got control of the country, Field Marshal Jan Smuts contended in 1946 that "the question of the U.N.'s right to intervene in the domestic affairs of a member state is vital to the whole concept...
...Cares?" All too often she found that her students had no desire to learn. Whatever wit they had, they directed mostly to thinking up excuses for being late ("I was dreamin' about ya, Mrs. Beal, an I didn' wanna wake up"), and finding ways to resist vocabulary drill ("So who cares? I say a woid like dat an all my frens laugh at me. Nobody know what dat woid means"). Almost every class had its sullen and defiant pupils who would yawn, lounge, drum, stamp, and wander about at will. Whether they worked or not, they knew that...
...Large companies have found their fears about practicing desegregation in the South unjustified. Example: Westinghouse has put Negroes and whites to work on the same semiskilled jobs in South Carolina without incident. Said Westinghouse President Gwilym A. Price: "We found out that people fear and resist change, but experience overcomes the fear of the unknown...
...Nishimoto style emphasizes the importance of balance, leverage, and pressure points. The Thursday night students know twenty throws from the hip and many others over the shoulder. The flips look deceptively easy. When one prospective student claimed the victims were helping, he was invited to remove his shoes and resist. In two seconds the instructor had the skeptic head down, feet up; the boy's wallet, comb, and socks were scattered over the ground. When he returned to earth he reassembled himself, mumbled, "It works," and left...
Under such conditions, the worst and the best in men were drawn out. Some formed gangs to kill and rob those too weak to resist. Others performed Christian acts that went well beyond the everyday call of charity. Outside the walls, not unlike concentration camp commanders of other centuries, Captain Wirz lived with his pleasant wife and nice children, spoke English with his heavy German accent, and to the end insisted that he was a good man who had done the best he could...