Word: resistive
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...generals can resist explaining how they happened to lose a battle. Make it a campaign or a whole war and the need becomes almost compulsive. In Sir Henry Clinton's case, the explanation is one that ought to interest every U.S. citizen. And who was Sir Henry? Most schoolboys know that Lord Cornwallis surrendered the British army at Yorktown, but few know that Sir Henry, the British commander in chief, left New York on the very day of the surrender with a rescuing army...
...body make it prone to infection-and, probably, more years of work to find out how to prevent or reverse these changes. But Dr. Dubos permitted himself a vision of the future: a world in which antibiotics and elaborate medical treatment will not be needed, because the power to resist infectious disease will be built into, and maintained in, man himself...
...could not resist adding that 85% of the people he had heard from by mail and telegraph agreed with his original point illustrated by the dog story. A bystander at the airport yelled: "You were right the first time, Charlie." Wilson grinned and waved, but he did not stop to tell another story...
...United States in the contest for free Asia's support. Acting as Foreign Operations administrator, he promised the American dollars originally scheduled for the Indo-China campaign to members of the Columbo mutual assistance pact. These nations were meeting in Canada to appraise the Columbo plan's ability to resist Communism in the underdeveloped countries of Southern Asia. Unfortunately, Stassen behaved like the amatcur card player, forgetting that he is not in the diplomatic game alone, and that the government is a partner easily displeased by crratic behavior...
...like me, I'll know it, and I have to get out of there." This is possibly a somewhat morbid and perhaps flamboyant exaggeration of his condition, but his friends say that he often does seem to flounder in a sea of impressions. It is to resist them, they say, that he puts up his arbitrary, antisocial front...