Word: resists
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...tried to celebrate the last of the upper-echelon hurlers, even as their ranks thinned year by year and the masses around me drank the Kool-Aid and succumbed to the seduction of the home run. But ultimately, it proved fruitless to resist the well-laid plans of the ash-wielding tyrants. Their largest offensive—launched in that fateful summer of ’98—proved too strong for any resistance, and the entire nation became entranced by the hypnotic potion of ball after ball flying out of the shrunken cathedrals. By the time the final...
...their sponsorship of client states in the Third World. For the U.S. it is a question of Moscow's riding roughshod over one of the fundamental understandings of détente. At their 1972 summit, Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev signed a declaration of principles that committed both sides to resist the temptation to "obtain unilateral advantage" over each other. But when the U.S.S.R. began moving into Africa in the mid-1970s--particularly into Ethiopia and Angola, which figured so prominently in Reagan's speech--the U.S. accused the Kremlin of "violating" the spirit of détente, which was soon pronounced...
...will offer the remaining 10% a plural society. If they disavow the use of force and violence, if they forswear the use of guns and agree to disband the N.P.A., there is no reason why they shouldn't be allowed to join the political mainstream. If they resist, they will have declared themselves as public enemies, but they will be easier to subdue...
...whose most successful works in that period were counterculture icons like Bonnie and Clyde and Little Big Man, is not about to be nostalgic about his former competition. Target is a deadpan satire on the old cloak-and-dagger conventions almost to the end, at which point Penn cannot resist staging with self-conscious luridness a scene in which Walter must deal with a particularly sadistic bomb threat...
...Officers observed two men graffiti tagging the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) building with spray-paint. Upon being spotted, the perpetrators attempted to flee the scene and the officers gave chase. The perpetrators were caught, attempted to resist arrest but ultimately, were subdued. John A. Cobblah, 20, of Maynard, Mass. and Daniel Gursha, 19, of Haven, Mass. were then placed under arrest for tagging property, resisting arrest, and carrying a dangerous weapon...