Word: resistent
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...course everyone with any sense knows what a terribly pro-Republican rag you are, and so I shouldn't subscribe to you at all. I do, in fact, cancel my subscription regularly, but you have such good writers I can't resist...
...education bill, medical aid for the aged, "constructive" farm measures, an increase in the minimum wage. And he added a warning that he would veto bills with unreasonably high price tags: "I shall not be a party to reckless spending schemes ... I shall not fail to resist inflationary pressures by whatever means are available...
...murmured reproachfully: "Not, I think, one of ours, sir." But despite the awesome atmosphere and the great trousers schism, Americans keep coming to Savile Row for tailoring that is as smooth, in one cutter's words, as "a millpond in a heat wave." For it is hard to resist tailors whose purpose, avows Gerald Abrahams, chairman of the British Men's Wear Guild, is to "make you look stronger and slimmer and younger and richer...
...behind its words become too blatant. Mr. Kuznetzov and Mr. Khrushchev have only to fill in a silence or two with a statement like "As is well known, the Soviet Republics have no aggressive desires against other peoples, or "As is well known, the Soviet Government is willing to resist all forms of imperialism, wherever they may appear"; they may then cross their hands and sit back in a posture of absolutely unassailable virtue. After all, a great deal of what they are saying is perfectly true...
...always been able to see and understand the danger presented by missiles and airplanes and bombs, but we found it hard to recognize the even more deadly danger of the propaganda that warps the mind, the economic offensive that softens the nation, the subversion that destroys the will to resist tyranny...