Word: resistive
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Sutherland tried to remain aloof from last week's uproar, but he could not resist one last rueful word: "I took up portrait painting by accident. Although this commission was interesting, I enormously regret I was asked to paint a national hero. People have their own conception of what a hero is like and too many things other than artistic are involved. I don't think, if I were asked again, that I would...
...college women of the East. Her insistence on comfort over submission East. Her insistence on comfort over submission has also won her the admiration of eastern college males, whose sincere hope it is that she will conform moderately to innovations but will still retain her will power to resist anomalies...
...press is becoming a less and less salable commodity (see below). Said Cowles: "As the best papers have grown, the poorer papers, the marginal papers, have, to everybody's benefit, gradually died out . . . Those newspapers that are not in hotly competitive fields are moreover better able to resist the pressure to sensationalize the news, to play up the cheap sex story that will sell more copies than another that may be of far more importance and significance...
Flanked by busts of Washington and Lincoln, Avery announced that he had hired an outside public-relations firm to present his case to stockholders and would use "every legitimate means to resist the raiding parties being organized to grab the large liquid assets of the company." As far as Wolfson was concerned, snapped Avery: "I don't know what is in his mind . . . This is all a very savage and vicious thing and a menace to the United States. Management is hired to run a profitable business and protect the interests of stockholders. We intend to continue...
...birth by mistake, was the son of the woman who had raised Ernstli. Wrote Mrs. Joye in her diary: "I can't weep any more, and my lair would be snow-white if I didn't dye it." She dreaded giving up Paul, but she could not resist claiming Ernstli. After the boys were switched back to their real mothers, Ernstli wept for days, but soon stopped addressing Mrs. Joye as "Madame" and started calling her "Maman." Mrs. Joye's unpretentious account is bound to give imaginative parents plenty to think about next time they take...