Word: resisting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...question that interested Egyptians most, the evacuation of 80,000 British troops from Suez, Nye treaded so skillfully that London newspapers mistakenly thought he had spoken like an English nationalist. So far as he is concerned, "Egypt has a right to resist conditions she does not like," and Bevan the Briton supports her conditions...
Zirconium. The STR, designed by Argonne National Laboratory and Westinghouse Electric Corp., was a staggering exercise in pioneer engineering. One enormous problem was the material for tubes and other structural parts in the reacting core. It must resist corrosion, and it must not absorb too many neutrons. The answer was the rare metal zirconium, then a laboratory curiosity. Its metallurgy was shockingly difficult, but Rickover pushed it so hard that he called himself "Mr. Zirconium...
...many persons" had crossed the Nepalese frontier from Red China. "But if there is any conception that there are preparations being made in Tibet for some kind of invasion of India, I think that is a complete mistake ... In the final analysis, if it takes place, we will resist it-so why get afraid...
...this blasted job." Hall and other Republican politicians complain that the Eisenhower Administration ignores their patronage demands. It will probably continue to do so. Ike and his top advisers are much less interested in jobs for Republicans than they are in removing those Democratic bureaucrats who, actively or passively, resist Administration policies...
...least one quarter to be watched by Protestants,'' said Dr. Blake, "is the plans and programs of the Roman Catholic hierarchy . . . Certainly the Protestant churches have much more important things to do than to resist Roman Catholicism . . . But surely Protestant leaders do have the responsibility to cast the spotlight upon all Roman Catholic hierarchy efforts to subvert American freedom...