Word: resistive
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Soapy plugged through law school to win his usual scholastic honor record, but this time he could not resist the bull sessions. Like all universities, Ann Arbor was in a ferment over the New Deal. The standard bull-session topics of sex and religion went out the window, and long debates raged over the day's headlines from Washington. Soapy thought of himself as a liberal Republican, but a close friend, Jim Denison (now a successful Los Angeles lawyer), convinced him that there could be no such animal. Soapy flipped resoundingly into the New Deal camp, much...
...American Legion convention, where he made his first speech of the trip, the Illinois governor admonished his audience. Striking out at "specialinterest" groups, he said: "I have resisted them before, and I hope the Almighty will give me the strength to do so again and again. And I should tell you, my fellow Legionnaires . . . that I intend to resist pressure from veterans also." With obvious reference to Fellow Legionnaire Joe McCarthy, Stevenson denounced attacks on the loyalty of General Marshall and called them an example of the kind of patriotism "which is, in Dr. Johnson's phrase, the last...
...fate of the intelligentsia who live by ideas often to be imprisoned by them. Yet, finally, can we resist the plain evidence of our senses? Might not we begin to be responsive to the possibility that in Dr. Baeck's free citizen, our fellow countryman (Homo Americanus), we have not merely a lesser evil but a substantial, palpable, perhaps victorious good...
...next move may be for the Shivers Democrats also to nominate Eisenhower and Nixon. This cross-filing was provided by a special bill passed in the Texas legislature two years ago, popularly known even then as the "Ike bill." Shivers did not resist the loyalty pledge at Chicago which sought to guarantee the nominees of the national party a place on state tickets. They can be on the ballot under some such heading as "Federal Democrat"; Eisenhower and Nixon could be the 'nominees on a "Texas Democrat" slate...
Only an Orangeman, and a sour one at that, could resist such a beginning to an international romance. Frank and Breda met first in Tralee where, as the song says, the pale moon rises above the green mountain. While most of County Kerry (and a stomping herd of out-of-town newsmen) looked on, they spent a day touring the Killarney Lakes, several hours at the thatched cottage on the 15-acre O'Sullivan farm where Breda's uncle dourly examined the visitor from America and 24-year-old Breda stuffed him with tea and cakes specially made...