Word: resists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commerce to pay for its costly imports. Trajan added copper to the once 99%-pure-silver denarius, and later the coin became wholly base metal. A century before Alaric sacked the Eternal City in A.D. 410, Rome had lost not only its purchasing power but also the wherewithal to resist barbarians at its borders...
...take part in a national "Academic Day of Conscience" on April 15, which "Resist" is coordinating at 400 campuses across the country. The Union hopes to hold a large anti-war rally in the Yard...
...spend the rest of his career here, teaching and doing research in political economy. But in 1966, when trustees of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton approached him, asking him to take over J. Robert Oppen-heimer's post as director of the "intellectual hotel," he could not resist their offer...
Astonishingly, the lessons of the recent Indonesian episode have not been learned. A Communist revolution was crushed by indigenous forces and American officials claim that the U.S. presence in Vietnam "encouraged" the Indonesian army and people to resist the Communists. This account does not gibe with the fact that at the last U.N. General Assembly meeting the Indonesian foreign minister, arch-conservative Adam Malik, denounced the war in Vietnam...
This spring, thousands of seniors and graduate students here and around the country are wrestling with this decision of whether to resist the draft. The CRIMSON supports those students who, for moral reasons, refuse to serve in the Armed Forces during the war in Vietnam...