Word: resistive
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...sculptor. The stocky, intensely religious Milanese never went to art school. A stucco worker, he turned to sculpture 20 years ago and found he could make a living teaching what he had never studied. Manzu hopes to complete his Vatican commission in four years, and that it will "resist the centuries." Says he: "I would give all my blood for this door...
...poem must resist the intelligence Almost successfully...
...time's with a painfully deliberate slowness, occasionally with a breakaway rush to the end of a jumbled phrase. It was a speech that read better than it sounded. To the world it was, in essence, a restatement of America's desire for peace and determination to resist aggression. To the nation, the President's message was a warning that that desire and determination will have to be paid for not only with dollars, but also with harder work, with economic pinches and restrictions and the giving up of "many things we, enjoy...
...earth that are most vulnerable to Communist attack (the other four: Formosa, Germany, Yugoslavia, Iran). If Indo-China falls, all of southeast Asia is likely to go. The U.S. position in the Philippines would be outflanked. The weak governments of Burma, Siam and Indonesia could probably not long resist Communist pressure, and the Red tide would sweep to the borders of India. Indo-China may hold the difference between limited success and total disaster of U.S. policy and U.S. hopes in Asia...
...Detroit's Welfare Superintendent set about investigating 50 overweight women on the city's welfare rolls, who get an extra $3.30 every fortnight to buy nonfattening foods, discovered they had made no progress whatever in losing weight. "Maybe in this weather," he conjectured, "they can't resist ice cream and potato salad...