Word: resistive
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After reading "The Rosy View" [about Faith Baldwin's television show-TIME, Jan. 29], I cannot resist the temptation of telling you a thing or two. Many people resent your "know it all" approach to novelists who do not use your hard-boiled style . . . Who do you think you are, anyhow...
Though the admissions office and the scholarship office both make their decisions and their awards independently, there is still danger in giving the alumni a free rein. If alumni concentrate on good football players, the admissions office will not get its "broad base" and may find it difficult to resist the urgent pleas of active grads...
Afterward, Ambassador de Lequerica, a shrewd bon vivant who has unofficially held down Spain's Washington embassy since 1948, was asked by reporters what Spain could contribute. "Spain," he replied, "is a nation absolutely ready to resist any aggression and defend Europe...
Milk is about the last important food to resist preservation by freezing. It can be preserved in several ways with its food value intact, but its flavor is apt to be ruined by any kind of tinkering. The U.S. Department of Agriculture now says that frozen, concentrated milk might soon join orange juice in the family icebox...
...invited the 27-man executive committee of the National Union of Mineworkers to a conference at 10 Downing Street. Because four or five members of the executive are Communists, including N.U.M. General Secretary Arthur Horner, Attlee did not appeal for more coal for defense; Horner was primed to resist any such plea. Instead, Attlee's Colonial Secretary, ex-Miner Jim Griffiths, gave the executive a comradely pep talk, said the government wouldn't let the miners down. At meeting's end, Attlee promised to redress the miners' grievances in return for their pledge that they would...