Word: resisting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...football weekends Gambit used supplementary techniques. He would send himself telegrams at the last minute: "Sorry cannot come darling. Viscount proposed last night and simply couldn't resist. Yacht sails for Capri tonight. Toujours gai, darling. Signed Mimi...
...football weekends Gambit used supplementary techniques. He would send himself telegrams at the last minute: "Sorry cannot come darling. Viscount proposed last night and simply couldn't resist. Yacht sails for Capri tonight. Toujours gai, darling. Signed Mimi...
Actually, said Wilson, in an open letter to "Mr. X," the escalator clause in G.M.'s contract is "neither inflationary nor deflationary. As a matter of fact, it tends to resist inflation to some extent since wages are only adjusted upward several months after the cost of living has increased...
...Egyptian politicians always have-to twisting the lion's tail. Privately, Nahas Pasha, like King Farouk and the rest of Egypt's upper crust, probably dreads nothing so much as the withdrawal of Britain's defensive screen. Without it, Egypt would be in poorer shape to resist the Russians, its own restless mob, and the Israelis, whom many Egyptians still fear. The British are convinced, as they were in Iran, that the Egyptians cannot get along without them. But the peril is that, as in Iran, a government unable to deliver on its domestic promises will have...
...well played by Actor Haas) living out a lonely middle age at a dreary outpost along the railroad tracks. On a visit to a carnival to buy a dog, he meets a calculating blonde floozy (Beverly Michaels), who soon has him at the end of her leash. Unable to resist his $7,000 bank account, she marries him. Then, showing her contempt as broadly as she chews her gum, she waits around for a chance to get rid of her husband and get her hands on his bank account...