Word: resisting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Family Quarrel. The Russians thus had a continuing hold on both Nasser and Kassem. The British, radiating a little more optimism than perhaps the circumstances warranted, still talked of Kassem's capacity to resist, if need be, the Communist help he depended upon to crush the Mosul revolt. (So long as Baghdad keeps independent of Cairo, the British think they can save their valuable oil principality of Kuwait from falling to Nasser.) Washington's reaction was to take no sides in what it called an Arab "family quarrel." Nasser's disenchantment with the Communists may now have...
...tonality in the early years of this century, the power of this great organizing force has been strong enough to dominate most of the production of Bartok, Stravinsky, and Hindemith. It dominates a good deal of the music being written today. The atonalists have not found it easy to resist. How can a piece of music be held together without the familiar tonal relationships? Some composers (Elliott Carter, for example) have attempted highly individual and cerebral ways of unifying a large work. Others have seen a revivifying solution in the twelve-tone system, from which has grown...
...hour that he wanted the job. In the Black Forest resort where he was taking the health cure (TIME, March 9), Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard was confronted by laundry hampers full of mail. Thousands of letters and telegrams from small businessmen, farmers and labor leaders urged Erhard to resist all attempts to kick him upstairs...
...frontiers and the barriers that go with them, the Community had progressed smoothly on a rising market. But coal's current slump provides a painful reminder that although barriers may technically be gone, barrier mentality is far from dead. The pressures of economic self-interest have begun to resist the supranational powers originally granted by treaty to the Community's nine-man High Authority...
...legislature must resist the temptation to procrasinate by merely ordering another in the interminable sequence of favorable studies going back to the Coolidge reports of 1945 and 1947. In fact, MTA extension has already been initiated, and an extension to Newton Highlands is now under construction...