Word: resisting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Matter of Conscience. The West's military strength to resist Communism grew in 1951. But Mossadegh's challenge could not be met by force. For all its power, the West in 1951 failed to cope with a weeping, fainting leader of a helpless country; the West had not yet developed the moral muscle to define its own goals and responsibilities in the Middle East. Until the West did develop that moral muscle, it had no chance with the millions represented by Mossadegh. In Iran, in Egypt, in a dozen other countries, when people asked: "Who are you? What...
Many even develop a kind of attachment for the dreary camp life, the crowded rooms, the bare electric light bulbs. In this lazy, squalid existence they keep warm and they get food. Whatever skills the men once had have rusted from disuse. It would take strong character to resist decay, and many of these people do not have strong characters. Out of the lives of the rejected have gone dignity and hope...
...Monsanto chemists looked around for a chemical that would do the work of the polyuronides and also resist bacteria...
Battles to Be Won. Ruhr industrialists, French steel kings, militant trade unionists, patriotic Germans, patriotic French-could they work together for the common good? The amount of resistance to the Schuman Plan is a measure of how much it asks. The Dutch have approved it; the Italians are ready to. But Belgium and Luxembourg resist. So does West Germany, biggest steel and coal producer in continental Europe. Konrad Adenauer was forced last week to postpone a vote on the Schuman Plan until January, and without Germany the Plan will not work. Yet France had been the highest hurdle. Clearing...
...federation-that old dream of the intellectual salons of Europe* which now stirs the streets of Europe. The notion of federation has seeped so deep into Western Europe's consciousness that practical men are now looking hard at it. It has become important enough to have to resist...