Word: resistive
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...flew off to London and Paris to discuss, as he put it, "some of the real problems involved in creating the obviously desirable united front." As he departed, he issued a statement which summed up his thinking with a forcefulness that would be hard for reasonable free men to resist. Said he: "This Government believes that if all the free people who are threatened now unite against the threat, it can be ended. The Communist bloc, with its vast resources, can win success by overwhelming, one by one, small bits of freedom. But it is different if we unite...
...Israel as an accomplished fact. I say further that you are deliberately attempting to maintain a state of affairs delicately suspended between peace and war, while at present desiring neither. This is a most dangerous policy, and one which world opinion will increasingly condemn, if you continue to resist any move to obtain at least a less dangerous modus vivendi with your neighbor...
Woman's world is giving the sanitary engineers still further challenges. The garbage disposer ("mechanical pig") built into kitchen sinks is overloading city-sewage systems. And the fancy new detergents used in automatic dishwashing gum up the treatment plants: they foam crazily and resist chemical breakdown. This problem of wastes is where the sanitary engineers came in, thousands of years ago. Ahead of them are more turns of the same spiral...
...pitchman for a U.S. carnival touring West Germany, catches a fraulein named Willie (Anne Baxter) picking his pocket and hustles her off the midway. He kisses her. "I've been kissed before," Willie moans with pleasure when he lets her go, "but never-uhhhhh!" Willie "tries to resist" -being, as the synopsis explains, "an attractive and intelligent girl who is simply down on her luck in the ruins of postwar Germany." But Joe "arouses her beyond her powers of resistance . . . and like so many others before her," she is carried off to the conqueror's chariot...
Sugar-Coating. But the Government (the film was shot by the Air Force, reviewed by the Atomic Energy Commission, and released by the Federal Civil Defense Administration) was unable to resist sugarcoating. The finished product was all too worthy of the street from which it sprang-the address of the USAF laboratory, as the film publicity releases proudly state, is 8935 Wonderland Ave., Hollywood 46, Calif...