Word: resisting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...months ago, he weighed only 5 lbs. "He looked like a child assigned a set of skin three times too big," recalls Sheila Anderson, director of the infant's shelter at C.I.I. Crack babies frequently have trouble keeping down their food. Given to spasms, trembling and muscular rigidity, they resist cuddling by arching their backs, an early sign of what some studies suggest may be lasting neurological and emotional disorders. In pediatric intensive-care units around the country, they fill the night air with their inconsolable "cat cries," a distinctive high-pitched whine that conveys who knows what inexpressible misery...
Even with American cooperation, that vision could prove elusive. The aging revolutionaries who dominate Viet Nam's 13-member Politburo are largely uneducated and rigidly dogmatic. They resist the creative solutions of younger technocrats and refuse to countenance the kind of political renovation that might stanch the flow of tens of thousands of refugees each year. Like the Chinese, they continue to believe that economic miracles are possible without political reform. "The Old Guard was good for war," says a Foreign Ministry official, "but not for peacetime Viet...
Early in the '80s, the Mets were impossible to resist. They had a theme song that went, "The Mets are really socking the ball--they're hitting those homers, over the wall." They had perennial losing pitchers like Pete Falcone, Bob Apodaca and Skip Lockwood. They had young, exciting players with goofy grins and exotic names like Mookie Wilson and Hubie Brooks. They had Rusty Staub, the league's fattest pinch-hitter.(Staub was especially fun to have around. When your friend had to retrieve the ball from the bush you could yell, "Quick, you've got a shot...
...Laytonville Observer to protest Seuss. Said one: "To teach our children that harvesting redwood trees is bad is not the education we need." With the second ad, says School Superintendent Brian Buckley, "we knew we had a problem." Last week a school-district committee voted 6 to 1 to resist censorship and keep The Lorax on the required list. Next week the school board gets a whack at the problem...
...this as a threat to his access to Rumania's rich oil fields, but for the time being he was too preoccupied to counterattack. And then Hitler finally became a victim of his own successes. He could not believe that backward Russia, which had had trouble subduing Finland, could resist the invincible Wehrmacht...