Word: resisting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many of the offspring of mice put in the chamber were normal, and the seriousness of the defects varied widely even in the same litter, indicating that some mice could resist the injury better than others...
...easy to agree that certain systems of moral values will lead a person to resist the temptations of basketball fixers, but there is very little agreement as to which system of morals will do the best job. It is interesting to note that many of the basketball fix cases involved colleges run by religious orders, where a system of morality is generally a central part of the curriculum...
...backfires. Inaccurate charges of enemy brutality actually spur the enemy to further violations, and prompt our own troops to commit similar acts in revenge. Atrocity charges also stimulate the home-front hotheads (several senators called for "immediate atomic retaliation" Last week), and stiffen the enemy's will to resist. Colonel Hanley's inaccurate statement not only countered our attempts to arrange a speedy truce in Korea; it also bloated the facts about Communist atrocities into unpalatable exaggeration...
...instance, he repeatedly says that the U.S. should not offer aid to countries which are not willing to aid themselves; he does not recognize that in many instances the offer of U.S. aid is the best propaganda for liberty and that it creates in other countries a will to resist aggression and injustice...
...Virginia's Dan River Mills, Inc. announced a new process, mysteriously labeled X2, which it claims will make rayon wear twice as long, resist shrinking, wrinkling, yellowing and harmful effects of some laundry bleaches. ¶Chrysler Corp. rolled out a sleek blue, six-passenger experimental sport car, whose hard-top body was made by Italy's Carrazzeria Ghia. Built on a 125-inch wheelbase (v. 145-2-for Chrysler Crown Imperials), the low-slung "K-310" is 18 ft. 4½ in. overall. It has the same basic engine as the Imperial, but horsepower has been stepped...