Word: resistive
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...clear formula was essential for informing soldiers of the POW's obligations, its lone ingredient--resistance--helps perpetuate the horror that soldiers face in Communist prison camps. While the code directs men to resist enemy interrogation to "the utmost of their ability," the Defense Advisory Committee report behind the code informs GIs and all potential enemies that prisoners will not be prosecuted if they yield to torture. Captors know they can extract signed confessions--but only by applying irresistable pressure...
...President Eisenhower, having decided on the removal of the Governor of the Virgin Islands, found Secretary of Defense Wilson announcing his opposition, Senator Richard Russell flying off to St. Thomas to advise the governor to defy his orders, NATO Supreme Commander Alfred M. Gruenther urging fellow officers to resist the project and Secretary of the Army Brucker contradicting orders sent out by Secretary of Interior McKay...
Last week Sylvester prescribed the appropriate beverage to go with reducing diets: "Lighter fluid." Sylvester can seldom resist a pun. He told about the vending machine that sells flowers and gives "change in peonies," and the vacationing scientist who posted a sign on his office, "Gone Fission." When the German Chancellor flew to Moscow, Sylvester wondered: "Due to time changes, did he have to Adenauer...
...more than once snatched from its proper resting place, they are a source of inspiration and a symbol of authority. Without them, who can say what will become of moral standards on this campus? Who can foretell to what extreme and unsavory practices some will stoop? Who, indeed, can resist the temptation that presents itself to the weary doubles players as he strives in vain to return a wicked drive...
...With the tentative name of TPM (Tuesday evening), the club plans to meet the third Tuesday of every month and to hold some kind of social activity between regular meetings. Says 45-year-old Preacher Davie: "The way they responded to the church relationship is wonderful and surprising. People resist so often when you try to give them a spiritual background-then suddenly here are 160 of them." The club's purpose: to provide a happy alternative to "getting a date or getting married the quick way by being barflies...