Word: resisting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...press is becoming a less and less salable commodity (see below). Said Cowles: "As the best papers have grown, the poorer papers, the marginal papers, have, to everybody's benefit, gradually died out . . . Those newspapers that are not in hotly competitive fields are moreover better able to resist the pressure to sensationalize the news, to play up the cheap sex story that will sell more copies than another that may be of far more importance and significance...
Flanked by busts of Washington and Lincoln, Avery announced that he had hired an outside public-relations firm to present his case to stockholders and would use "every legitimate means to resist the raiding parties being organized to grab the large liquid assets of the company." As far as Wolfson was concerned, snapped Avery: "I don't know what is in his mind . . . This is all a very savage and vicious thing and a menace to the United States. Management is hired to run a profitable business and protect the interests of stockholders. We intend to continue...
...birth by mistake, was the son of the woman who had raised Ernstli. Wrote Mrs. Joye in her diary: "I can't weep any more, and my lair would be snow-white if I didn't dye it." She dreaded giving up Paul, but she could not resist claiming Ernstli. After the boys were switched back to their real mothers, Ernstli wept for days, but soon stopped addressing Mrs. Joye as "Madame" and started calling her "Maman." Mrs. Joye's unpretentious account is bound to give imaginative parents plenty to think about next time they take...
...generals can resist explaining how they happened to lose a battle. Make it a campaign or a whole war and the need becomes almost compulsive. In Sir Henry Clinton's case, the explanation is one that ought to interest every U.S. citizen. And who was Sir Henry? Most schoolboys know that Lord Cornwallis surrendered the British army at Yorktown, but few know that Sir Henry, the British commander in chief, left New York on the very day of the surrender with a rescuing army...
...body make it prone to infection-and, probably, more years of work to find out how to prevent or reverse these changes. But Dr. Dubos permitted himself a vision of the future: a world in which antibiotics and elaborate medical treatment will not be needed, because the power to resist infectious disease will be built into, and maintained in, man himself...