Word: resisting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could not resist adding that 85% of the people he had heard from by mail and telegraph agreed with his original point illustrated by the dog story. A bystander at the airport yelled: "You were right the first time, Charlie." Wilson grinned and waved, but he did not stop to tell another story...
...United States in the contest for free Asia's support. Acting as Foreign Operations administrator, he promised the American dollars originally scheduled for the Indo-China campaign to members of the Columbo mutual assistance pact. These nations were meeting in Canada to appraise the Columbo plan's ability to resist Communism in the underdeveloped countries of Southern Asia. Unfortunately, Stassen behaved like the amatcur card player, forgetting that he is not in the diplomatic game alone, and that the government is a partner easily displeased by crratic behavior...
Marlon conceded that "when I came to Hollywood I had a rather precious and coddled attitude about my own integrity. It was stupid of me to resist so directly the prejudice that money is right. But just because the big shots were nice to me I saw no reason to overlook what they did to others and to ignore the fact that they normally behave with the hostility of ants at a picnic. The marvelous thing about Hollywood is that these people are recognized as sort of the norm, while I am the flip. These gnarled and twisted personalities...
...Well, I really did feel I had every right in the world to resist the insipid protocol of turning my private life into the kind of running serial you find on bubble-gum wrappers. You can't just take sensitive parts of yourself and splatter them around like so much popcorn butter. Personal freedom has always been terribly important to me, and I have carried aloofness as a sort of banner to my sense of freedom...
...like me, I'll know it, and I have to get out of there." This is possibly a somewhat morbid and perhaps flamboyant exaggeration of his condition, but his friends say that he often does seem to flounder in a sea of impressions. It is to resist them, they say, that he puts up his arbitrary, antisocial front...