Word: resistent
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...smiling Lilliputians of Southeast Asia find the courage and unity to resist the Big-Endian blandishments of their Blefuscudian cousins in Red China and Viet Nam, to say nothing of the far greater danger menacing them from the Muscovite Brobdingnag giant to the north; and may the good Quinbus Flestrin of the West, the democratic big brother Gulliver, realize before it is too late that their small-scale problems are to an alarming degree his problems...
...liberty") Henry wanted no part in the Randolph case. By 1793, he was in ill health and on the verge of retirement from his law practice. But when desperate Richard Randolph, accused with his sister-in-law of murdering her newborn baby, doubled the fee, Lawyer Henry could not resist. He fitted on his brown wig, and hurried over to Cumberland Courthouse to appear as chief counsel for the defense...
...occupying powers are worried all the same. For, while keeping West Germany strong enough to resist Communism, they have not successfully combatted rising nationalism, nor solved the economic problems resulting from the arbitrary division of the country. And, in some cases, they have been reduced to persuading the Bonn government to their way of thinking. The very strength of the West German State has become a matter for Allied worry...
...Saigon the Communists came close to forcing a showdown which would reveal, one way or the other, whether the U.S. was deadly serious in its intention to resist the spread of Communism. The test would not be the relatively easy one of whether the U.S. was willing to spend money, nor whether the U.S. was willing to wage all-out atomic war. It would be the narrower, harder test of whether the U.S. was willing to engage in limited military action for limited objectives, each one of less than worldwide importance, but each one of which might be, if unresisted...
...Pacific to get into the Spanish-American War, the Oregon hoisted the signals "C B T" which meant "Are there any men-of-war about?" To show which kind of warships she was looking for, the Oregon broke out a Spanish flag. Joshua Slocum answered "No." He could not resist adding: "Let us keep together for mutual protection." The Oregon's only acknowledgment was to dip her flag three times to the Spray's own lowered flag, and to hurry...