Word: resistive
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...failed in Yugoslavia this year. Corn, the main harvest, was only half that of last year; wheat was down 30%, potatoes 70%. Total loss: 4,000,000 tons of foodstuffs and animal fodder. A winter famine would cut the capacity of Marshal Tito's independent Communist government to resist Stalinist aggression...
Love, says Ironist Gill, is not just the sweet mystery of life; it is a tremendous natural force that can shatter people who resist it. And people who truly know how to love can be dreadful nuisances in a world of people...
...Edith Sitwell, poetess of Britain's famed Sitwell clan, explained why critic-baiting was her favorite sport: "I can't resist sharpening my wits on a wooden head any more than a cat not sharpen his claws on a table...
...must resist aggressive moves on the part of the Russians," he said, "and Korea seems to be as good a place as any. But sentimentally, I wish I could admire the South Korea government. I'm afraid it's a corrupt police state...
...same question might be asked of Stevens' poems, most of which begin to fade as soon as they are read. But though they resist the memory as well as the intelligence, their delicate, twangy music-as full of surprises as a zither-sometimes delights the ear. Few living poets can be as vivid and as vague, both at once...