Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part in Carter's re-election campaign; and he would not be an image shaper for the President. Donovan said he had been "very impressed by the sincerity with which the President described his need and the country's need for the job. It was difficult to resist such an appeal put on the grounds of public service...
Hardly had Moon Landrieu taken office as a 29-year-old Louisiana state legislator in 1960 when segregationist Governor Jimmie Davis called a special session to resist federal integration orders. The vote in favor of ramming through the segregation package was 93 to 1. The dissenter: Moon Landrieu. Colleagues told him that his political career was ruined; his family was showered with death threats. "I certainly wasn't a Sir Lancelot," Landrieu now insists. "I was miserable because I couldn't figure out a way to evade or finesse the issue...
Stein doesn't try to show us anything more about the Who than what we already know--that its members are quite ugly, that they can play extremely good music, and that they used to smash their instruments. He couldn't resist putting every Townshend guitar-smashing ever recorded on film into his movie...
...Noyce occasionally slips into sappiness, he finishes with a sentimental flourish equal to Norman Rockwell. When Maguire refuses to sell out to corporate forces, you can't resist a smile and a heartthrob at lines like: "He's running towards a precipice with his eyes wide open." "No, he's just a bit old-fashioned...
...priest who heads the diocesan tribunal. Bishop Rausch believes that lack of mature preparation is the chief cause of trouble. "We need to move our young people beyond romance or physical attraction to the sound foundations of love." It will take hard work, he adds, for Catholics to resist the trend to treat marriage and divorce casually...