Word: resisting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...history has demonstrated that democracies are usually stronger and despotisms are always more vulnerable than they appear. For example, it is impossible for Communist nations to develop into modern industrial states without a large degree of education. But minds so educated also penetrate the fallacies of Marxism and increasingly resist conformity. Also, there are increasing demands on the part of the subject peoples for more consumer goods, for more of the fruits of their labor...
...myth of security has supplemented the myth of success, according to the University Professor, and the religious resurgence must resist the "lure of security" if it is to provide the ability to ask the "radical question of meaning...
Vance Packard's The Hidden Persuaders, which 'pictures the consumer as powerless to resist motivational advertising," is indicative of the widespread uneasiness, Bauer asserted, and worry about conformity is on its way to becoming more of a problem than conformity itself...
Instead of the usual single control stick, the X-15 has three. One is designed to resist the multiplied weight of the pilot's hand or body when he is subjected to his plane's acceleration under the push of its rocket motor because of heavy G-load or because of its deceleration on slamming down into the atmosphere. But when the X-15 is on a ballistic trajectory above the atmosphere, with its engine cut off, the pilot will be weightless. He will then shift to a second stick that will give him better control in space...
...chill of lurking dread is no longer so chilly, the pace no longer so breathless as in Greene's earlier thrillers. He cannot resist slipping in a cruel, pointless caricature of a dumb U.S. businessman, or an unlikely scene in a top-secret conference, at which Wormold's secretary sprays the green baize with Greene bitterness. Such interludes damage the "entertainment," but they cannot really spoil the unique formula of suspense plus...