Word: resistive
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...Douglas MacArthur pointed out, before he was fired for advocating an air-sea campaign against Red China, there is not much that China's Communist government could do to resist or retaliate against such a war. The U.S.S.R. could come to the aid of its Chinese allies, but in doing so would risk all-out atomic war. Washington, long caught in the fallacy that the U.S.S.R. can be provoked into a war she does not want, has belatedly faced this risk and decided it is not great, if it exists...
...Matter of Conscience. The West's military strength to resist Communism grew in 1951. But Mossadegh's challenge could not be met by force. For all its power, the West in 1951 failed to cope with a weeping, fainting leader of a helpless country; the West had not yet developed the moral muscle to define its own goals and responsibilities in the Middle East. Until the West did develop that moral muscle, it had no chance with the millions represented by Mossadegh. In Iran, in Egypt, in a dozen other countries, when people asked: "Who are you? What...
Many even develop a kind of attachment for the dreary camp life, the crowded rooms, the bare electric light bulbs. In this lazy, squalid existence they keep warm and they get food. Whatever skills the men once had have rusted from disuse. It would take strong character to resist decay, and many of these people do not have strong characters. Out of the lives of the rejected have gone dignity and hope...
...Monsanto chemists looked around for a chemical that would do the work of the polyuronides and also resist bacteria...
...dogs get along as well as their owners, but the children resist each other and their prospective stepparents. Heflin suffers pratfalls at the hands of Patricia's boys and an embarrassing visit from an old flame (Virginia Field). Patricia, goaded by jealousy and split loyalties, is wooed by the head counselor (Richard Denning). It appears that widower may lose widow, but the children, ever wise in grown-up ways, trick their parents into getting together again...