Word: resisting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Commissioner's order is unconstitutional, everyone ought to oppose and resist it and hope that the Commissioner, or someone in authority, will countermand the order at once. William S. Taylor, Department of Psychology, Smith College...
Repairing Slippage. Despite the headline impact of the new emphasis, U.S. policy in the formal sense remained unchanged. The U.S. would continue to resist Communist expansion by force or threat of force at Quemoy. The U.S. would continue to seek to negotiate a dependable cease-fire with the Red Chinese at Warsaw. Given that, the U.S. might seek to persuade Chiang to withdraw sizable Nationalist contingents from Quemoy-but leaving Quemoy in Nationalist hands-as a means of removing what the President calls "a thorn in the side of peace...
...Answer. Reviewing the Arkansas record, the court found that integration violence in Little Rock was "directly traceable to the actions of legislators and executive officials of the State of Arkansas ... which reflect their own determination to resist this court's [desegregation] decision." To such defiance there could be only one answer: "The constitutional rights [of the students] are not to be sacrificed or yielded to the violence and disorder which have followed upon the actions of the Governor and Legislature ... Law and order are not ... to be preserved by depriving the Negro children of their constitutional rights...
...recoilless rifles. Between the Morice line and the Tunisian border the rebels have established a major supply depot and training center protected by antiaircraft guns. In Tunisia itself, with the open connivance of President Habib Bourguiba's government (which is not strong enough to resist them if it wanted to), there are five F.L.N. command posts, two replacement depots, eight hospitals, nine arsenals and three training camps...
...with "life in that Vatican City called Downing Street," Macmillan had announced that he was "out to have some fun." In Wolverhampton, while Lady Macmillan unpacked the bags at the hotel, he popped up at a local Butchers' Association ball, announced that he could not "resist a good band." Next day, his pants rolled up, he tramped through the Kidderminster cattle market, chuckled loudly when a runaway pig scampered between his legs (being photographed with pigs was a specialty of a previous Tory Prime Minister. Stanley Baldwin). Later Macmillan dropped in at the Half Moon for a spot...