Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...States which wish to do so prohibit. ... I don't drink myself at all, and I don't oppose Prohibition on the ground that it limits the liberties of the people. I think that in the interest of the community, and of the man who can not resist the temptation to drink in excess, if he has the opportunity to drink at all, other citizens in the community may be properly asked and compelled to give up drinking, although that drinking may do them no injury. My objections to Prohibition are as I have stated them above...
...catastrophe ensues. . . . The city dies. The nation without the vital lymph of youth and new generations, cannot resist and, being composed of cowardly old people, must necessarily fall a prey to younger peoples knocking at its deserted frontiers...
...Hard to resist, for Fascists, Monarchists and Bolshevists alike, is the lure of the U. S. tourist business. For many a year, Soviet Russia has looked enviously at U. S. millionaires squandering marks in Berlin, francs in Paris, lire in Rome. This year, through the tourist bureau Sovtorg-flot, the United Soviet Socialist Republics held out greedy Bolshevist hands. Concessions to arrange Russian tours went to three trans-Atlantic steamship lines (Cunard, French, Holland-American). About 700 tourists have proceeded, or are proceeding, Moscow-ward...
They led Julius Shaefer, 10, onto Curtiss flying field, Long Island. They dragged him close to a plane. He tried to resist, digging his heels into the earth. His big brother climbed into the plane's cockpit to show that the monster would not bite. They lifted Julius into the machine. Trembling with mute terror he clung to his mother, who also trembled while they put a stout strap about the boy's waist and fastened it securely to the plane seat. They put double straps about his arms. He tried to scream. He strained at his fastenings...
...powers that be (the Constitution of the United States) are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore, resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.' (Romans...