Word: resistive
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...unto you that ye resist not evil...
...Berry said that medical schools were "very sick" financially. While he emphasized urgent need of federal aid, he added. "With an adequate core of its own money a school can successfully resist unwarranted political interference or government control...
...avoid being blown to rubble, the report suggests, U.S. buildings should be redesigned to meet the specifications of strict codes used in earthquake regions. At present most are designed to resist a wind pressure of 20 lbs. a sq. ft. To give reasonable security against an atom bomb explosion half a mile away, this should be raised to 90 lbs. a sq. ft. At times of atom danger, all windows should be made of wire-glass and lined with heavy wire mesh to catch large flying fragments...
...sexual desire without restraint, it is not to be expected that they will fit into a pattern of stable married life without a struggle . . . What comes cheaply is not valued highly. But even more important, when a man knowingly deviates from the moral law, his ability to resist further temptation is weakened. Habit and the memory of sin are not easily effaced...
Barkley in unabashed and happy rebuttal. "Since I got married, such people as Clark Gable, Mayor O'Dwyer, Dick Tracy, Miss America and even the Methodist bishop* who married us have caved in-and I don't believe Sam Rayburn can resist much longer...