Word: resistive
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...German anti-armament feeling has weakened Western Europe's unity and will to resist Communism at the very moment of the gravest postwar world crisis...
...profession, facing the bankruptcy of a policy, a policy based on the decisions of the coalition government during a war for survival and put into execution by a Minister of Health [Aneurin Bevan] who could not resist the temptation to behave like a Fairy Godmother to an impoverished nation...
Enthusiasm, Knox thinks, only came into its full flower a century after Luther "shook up the whole pattern of European theology." The Quakers were the first of this flowering, and Knox "cannot resist the impression" that there is a direct line of influence upon them from the Anabaptist movement that ended in a bloody civil uprising at Münster 18 years after Luther's Ninety-Five Theses. Early Quaker simplicity strikes Knox as "almost . . . boorishness," and he takes fastidious note of Founder George Fox's "barbarous" style of writing. But he nonetheless pictures Fox as a potent...
...think there's any great difference on foreign policy . . . We have to be stiff with Russia, but not so stiff as to bring on a war." The arguments were over questions of degree. How much should the U.S. gamble on its allies' will to resist? Said Taft: "I think there should be a re-examination of everything...
...wealthy collector brought him a slim, yellowed volume of Persian poetry. Sure enough, reported Arberry, "There it was ... the oldest copy of Omar Khayyám's poems hitherto discovered ... The celebrated [Bodleian] codex had been bettered by exactly two centuries . . . This was more than human curiosity could resist...