Word: resisting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...free and independent if you consult geography or an atlas. But if you will look behind the veil, you will find that it is in the grip of another country, or rather of its bankers and big businessmen . . ." When India got its independence, Nehru was braced to resist the onslaught of rapacious U.S. business. When it did not come, he was more chagrined than relieved. One of the reasons for his 1949 trip to the U.S. was to interest American capital in India...
...want to repudiate his confession at the trial? Vogeler slowly crushed his cigarette in an ashtray. Said he: "There was some truth in it." But he added: "It is just a question of time before you confess. With some it takes a little longer than others, but nobody can resist that treatment indefinitely." Reporters took away the impression that they had not yet heard the whole story...
...Fires. When "the Lord opened the door" to Park Street, Preacher Ockenga found himself in the country's most historic bastion of Protestant conservatism. Founded in 1809 to resist the wave of Unitarianism then sweeping Boston, the high-spired church overlooking the Common got to be known as "Brimstone Corner" because of the gunpowder that was stored in its basement during the War of 1812. The fiery preaching that echoed there helped keep the nickname alive; William Lloyd Garrison gave his first public address against slavery at Park Street; Moody and Sankey led revivals there; Henry Ward Beecher preached...
...thought with horror that sometimes it is easier to resist actual pain and bodily wounds than the wave of sickness that assails one's stomach at a foul smell. I dreaded the possibility that I might weaken, and through God's mercy I was able to concentrate upon God, and it pleased God to fill my cell with an infinitesimal but overbrimming small part of His great glory...
...Communist world, jubilee was mostly high and unrestrained. "Victory for the Chinese and Korean people in the fight to resist American aggression," crowed Radio Peking. Rome's Red organ I'Unità echoed: "The criminal MacArthur fired because of the protest of the whole civilized world." The satellite Budapest press chanted a litany of satisfaction over the dismissal of a "bloody-handed hangman, murderous, carnivorous fascist." Only Moscow struck the suspicious as well as triumphant note. "Having removed the general who failed," warned the Literary Gazette for the ears of the Communist faithful, "Wall Street does not intend...