Word: resisting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good time combatting each other." In fact, the whole affair was as complex as, well, a war. All weekend, participants were indulging in the seductive impulse to establish their very own rules for the world. Not only could they alter history, they could control destiny. What Walter Mitty could resist...
...dissident groups, but I'm sure they will respond as they have in the past, by toughing it out. A pattern has been established over the years: when dissident leaders disappear, others come forward to take their place." There was no more compelling proof of the dissidents' will to resist than the closing statement delivered by Shcharansky at his trial, just before sentence was pronounced...
...typical month in 1969, the U.S. dropped 713 million leaflets over Viet Nam. At least a few pilots developed their own distribution system, dropping leaflets in tied bales to get the chore done quickly. Sometimes the system worked. One harried Viet Cong defector told Americans that his will to resist was broken one day by an astonishing incident: an enormous bundle of papers fell out of the sky and killed his best friend...
...guide was quite firm. "Please don't annoy her too much," he said as we approached a blue-footed booby that had decided to nest directly in our path. But even the guide, a serious young Australian biologist named Bob Close, could not resist the temptation, along with the rest of us, to poke a camera right in the face of the comic bird with the garishly colored webbed feet. The booby blithely continued to sit on her two eggs while the cameras clicked away. Said Close: "You would think that after having hundreds of tourists parade by them...
...never fear. Chekhov will always be in the best of hands: his own and those of audiences who can never resist his appeal for co-authorship or deny the stinging reproof of their own desolated lives...