Word: resisting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chief critics. He gave his audiences entertainment: a chorus line and a trick violinist. He raffled off door prizes and gave away free thimbles. Through it all he maintained such a beaming air of disarming good humor that Dearborn voters found him simply impossible to resist. Last week they voted to keep him in office. The vote: 16,872 to 12,732, the biggest margin he has ever rolled...
After reading "The Rosy View" [about Faith Baldwin's television show-TIME, Jan. 29], I cannot resist the temptation of telling you a thing or two. Many people resent your "know it all" approach to novelists who do not use your hard-boiled style . . . Who do you think you are, anyhow...
...Middle East. As the U.S. becomes increasingly involved in the defense of Europe, it will increasingly recognize that the Middle East must be defended as if it were part of Europe. Using the present strong point, Turkey, as an anchor, it will try to build an effective will to resist Communism in Greece, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Saudi Arabia...
...actions to resist or diminish the aggressive power of world Communism are protected by an umbrella-the superiority of the anti-Communist world in atomic bombs and in the long-range ability to equip and sustain modern armies, navies and air forces. The U.S. superiority in atomic bombs is probably at least 10 to 1. The superiority of the free world over the Communist world in steel production is 4 to 1, in oil 10 to 1, in aluminum...
Though the admissions office and the scholarship office both make their decisions and their awards independently, there is still danger in giving the alumni a free rein. If alumni concentrate on good football players, the admissions office will not get its "broad base" and may find it difficult to resist the urgent pleas of active grads...