Word: resistive
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...instance, he repeatedly says that the U.S. should not offer aid to countries which are not willing to aid themselves; he does not recognize that in many instances the offer of U.S. aid is the best propaganda for liberty and that it creates in other countries a will to resist aggression and injustice...
...Virginia's Dan River Mills, Inc. announced a new process, mysteriously labeled X2, which it claims will make rayon wear twice as long, resist shrinking, wrinkling, yellowing and harmful effects of some laundry bleaches. ¶Chrysler Corp. rolled out a sleek blue, six-passenger experimental sport car, whose hard-top body was made by Italy's Carrazzeria Ghia. Built on a 125-inch wheelbase (v. 145-2-for Chrysler Crown Imperials), the low-slung "K-310" is 18 ft. 4½ in. overall. It has the same basic engine as the Imperial, but horsepower has been stepped...
...thing, fluorochemicals are unusually stable. Unlike the organic chemicals, which are often inflammable or explosive, they resist decomposition by heat, chemical reagents or ultraviolet light. They are not attacked by bacteria or fungi. Some of them are very strong acids, others are so inert that they make fine fire extinguishers...
...American in Paris. A buoyant, imaginative musical, as hard to resist as its George Gershwin score; with Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron (TIME...
...American In Paris (MGM) is a grand show-a brilliant combination of Hollywood's opulence and technical wizardry with the kind of taste and creativeness that most high-budgeted musicals notoriously lack. The Technicolorful result is smart, dazzling, genuinely gay and romantic, and as hard to resist as its George Gershwin score...