Word: resisting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interests too. So, though U.S. emotional reactions might be divided, the U.S. response could not be. The U.S. had to stand with Britain, for the defense of the Canal and the restoration of order. This fundamental commitment once made, the U.S. could well insist that its British ally must resist a too-easy reliance on the whiff-of-grape philosophy...
...said, "that the intervention by force by Chinese Communists in Southeast Asia-even if they were called vol- unteers-would create a situation no less menacing than that which the United Nations met and faced in Korea. In any such event the United Nations should be equally solid to resist...
...administered by an agency designated by the college president and trustees. He deprecated the attacks on college football, adding that "the temptation to suggest that some of these gentlemen who would reform us might perform a far better service by examining their own affairs is almost too great to resist...
...Douglas MacArthur pointed out, before he was fired for advocating an air-sea campaign against Red China, there is not much that China's Communist government could do to resist or retaliate against such a war. The U.S.S.R. could come to the aid of its Chinese allies, but in doing so would risk all-out atomic war. Washington, long caught in the fallacy that the U.S.S.R. can be provoked into a war she does not want, has belatedly faced this risk and decided it is not great, if it exists...
...dogs get along as well as their owners, but the children resist each other and their prospective stepparents. Heflin suffers pratfalls at the hands of Patricia's boys and an embarrassing visit from an old flame (Virginia Field). Patricia, goaded by jealousy and split loyalties, is wooed by the head counselor (Richard Denning). It appears that widower may lose widow, but the children, ever wise in grown-up ways, trick their parents into getting together again...