Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...increase in centralization and wanted to keep bond operations in the hands of the Federal Open Market Committee. Said ex-President Hoover, who has had long experience with both businessmen and bureaucrats: "By the time it is all over, we expect an aggregate of 100% of those affected to resist reforms...
Russia and Communism become a major danger only in our divisions and confusions. We may have to resist Communism by force of arms. That does not give us warrant to load it with our sins and treat it as a universal scapegoat...
McGuire believes that the only thing that can save the West is a supreme effort of will: "However the story ends, our business is to resist the bastard fatalism which now infects us ... Freedom is not found in fatalism and passivity. Freedom is for men of good will. Freedom is for the brave...
...that, with the complicity of the Holy See, Mindszenty had plotted against the Hungarian government. But he defended Mindszenty's right to oppose his government on certain measures contradicting "divine and human rights." Said the Pope: "Bishops and the faithful themselves are bound by their own conscience to resist unjust laws...
...watches, lighters-all the paraphernalia of the bourgeois West. She was so awe-struck at the sight of Swedish abundance that she had bagged a handsome wool jacket without paying for it. "I've never seen such a beautiful thing before," she admitted. "I just couldn't resist...