Word: resistive
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Occasionally, as last year, a note of political significance has entered the proceedings. In 1743, Samuel Adams, speaking to a Commencement Day audience that included the Governor of the Colony, said, "It is lawful to resist the chief magistrate if the state cannot otherwise be preserved," and a Harvard graduation became one of the first sounding boards for the American Revolution. Now, very much as two hundred years ago, a lot of people look to the Harvard Yard on the second Thursday of June. The dross and the libations have been diverted to other days of the year; the original...
...mentality-a state of mind that won't trust God . . . These bleeding hearts, especially busybodies-in-Iaw and nosy neighbors, scream protestingly: 'Who'll take care of the next baby?' The simple answer is: The same God that takes care of you even when you resist His Will. 'But we must give our children security and education.' Just because God doesn't give parents and children all today's phony materialistic standards require, doesn't mean He fails them...
...patching on the treaty that would set out general principles for economic cooperation, the ninth International Conference of American States was over. The hemispheric system still seemed a long way from Simón Bolivar's dream of 1822-"a society of brother nations . . . united, strong, powerful to resist the aggressions of the foreigner"-but it was headed in that direction...
...Crum & Barnes thrown over secure careers to gamble on making a newspaper out of PM? Said Joe Barnes: "A challenge I couldn't resist." Said Bart Crum: "America has been running the wrong way since the fall of Germany. There's been a decline of faith. We want to help rebuild faith in the U.S. and in peace...
...Leet, professor of Geology, will spend his summer supervising explosions involving as much as 320,000 pounds of TNT, in a program sponsored by the Army to learn what underground structures can best resist disintegration...