Word: resistive
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...have a particular aversion to persons I who rush to the contributors' columns of periodicals with their complaints. I had hoped I always would be able to resist following them, but on reading your account of the Lewis-Munn wrestling match, I find myself slipping...
...enabled him to smoke fat cigars, wear silk socks, fur overcoats, diamond rings, roses. But Elisha Lee was lonely, both as animal and artist. He wanted a white woman to love him. And when he obtained pretty Ownie Tremlett for his wife it was only because she could not resist vulgar luxury in the face of frowsy widowhood in Brighton. They soon hated each other bitterly and a weakling mulatto baby was the core of their hate. Lee drank and died. Ownie reverted to a frowsy lodging house and dyed her hair...
...must be admitted at once that the necessary alterations would be expensive, for the Fogg Museum is sturdily built and might conceivably resist structural changes; but even when this is taken into account, the cost should be appreciably less than that of constructing an entirely new building...
...question is whether America will allow itself to be degraded into a communistic or socialistic State or whether it will remain American. Those who want to continue to enjoy the high state of American citizenship will resist all attempts to encroach upon the power of the courts." In closing, he praised the disarmament treaties and the Experts' (Dawes) Plan. In Chicago, Mr. Dawes maintained a continued silence which has endured since his speech on agriculture at Lincoln (TIME, Sept. 8). One of his chief occupations was the preparation of a speech for delivery in Milwaukee-pointblank at Mr. LaFollette...
...seldom that rival candidates pay social calls on one another, but Gen. Dawes, having delivered a speech at Lincoln, could not resist the temptation to call on the Governor of Nebraska. Correspondent Boyden Sparkes furnished this graphic account of the meeting...