Word: resistive
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...swindled into it by this tremendous ego of mine. I'm like a chile, I tell yah! 'Al,' I said, 'Al, old fella, they wantcha again. They finally seen the light.' Oh Lawdy, I got 'em good. And I just couldn't resist rubbing their noses...
Under cover of darkness, the Haganah captain escaped the British and raced for the Palestine shore. The Arlossoroff beached in the little town of Bat Galim, near Haifa, and prepared to resist British boarding parties...
...they?- the fabulous anonymities people refer to in saying, "This is what they are wearing." Was it Mrs. Harrison Williams, Wallis Windsor, the French designers, the Sophie Gimbels? Finally, she asked Sophie: "Are you a they?" Said Sophie: "We'll soon know. If I can resist the very long skirt trend, I'll be sure...
...country," said Dr. Foss, "entitles its holder ... irrespective of his training ... .to attempt any operation irrespective of its magnitude and technical difficulties. . . . The glamor of surgery, the superior position the young doctor believes he will attain . . . are so alluring that it is often difficult for the recent graduate to resist the temptation of plunging [unprepared] into surgery...
...Night. George Marshall had got the treaty he wanted: one-third of the world's nations (and Canada if it liked) would bind themselves to resist attack against any one of them, whether by an outside country or by a member republic. Again & again the Argentines had given in on committee disputes. Sharp, thin Foreign Minister Juan A. Bramuglia, sipping maté from a gourd in his Suite 400, had reined in his delegates. His orders flashed by day and by night. An Argentine delegate skidding down the fourth-floor corridor in his shorts to respond to a late...