Word: resisting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peking. Next day, singing their Moscow hosts' praises, the delegation took off for Peking. Franklin burbled of the "never-to-be-forgotten" sight of the Kremlin by moonlight, described Molotov as "carefree of spirit ... He left an impression upon me of being perfectly sincere," while Malenkov "cannot resist that friendly grin when someone has made a crack at the Russians or one of their particular policies." Wrote Morgan Phillips: "I am convinced-unless I know nothing of international affairs and human be havior-that the personal friendliness shown to us in the Soviet Union has been altogether genuine . . ..There...
...passage of the amendment, Governor Hugh White blamed the "crisis" in part on Mississippi's Negro leaders, who are reluctant to approve continued segregation. But he insisted that "there is no intention to 'defy' the Supreme Court; we are simply exercising the same legal right to resist this most unfortunate decision that the [National Association for the Advancement of Colored People] exercised in contesting the [pro-segregation] court decisions of over a half century . . . We shall now resist ... by every legal means at our command...
...France, where EDC began, EDC faced a lingering, disorderly death last week. Its demise was an agony, for in choosing to resist an ideal and reject a safeguard, the French Assembly brimmed over with the kind of patriotism it so often summons up at moments when patriotism can only be negative...
...Council of Churches in Evanston, Ill. . . . My speech was given as an answer to the State Department press release, and not the reverse, as your article would seem to indicate ... I have no fear of subversion from the Czechoslovak and Hungarian members [but] I question their ability to further resist the infiltration of the churches in their own lands even assuming [that] Communist control ... is not already complete...
...couldn't resist mailing you a picture of my do-it-yourself husband's project [see cut]. A nine-room ranchstyle house he has designed and built in the last seven years, using only weekend and holiday hours. Built of old used lumber, from railroad boxcars, which had to be cleaned and stripped of nails. Included in the construction are two fireplaces and one chimney for inside barbecue which required around 3,000 bricks . . . The house has 57 windows . . . one 15-ft.-by-20-ft. basement for furnace and shower, and one 12-ft.-by-12-ft. storm...