Word: resistive
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Safeguard. In Detroit, Corporal Fred Martin faced the fact that there are "too many good-looking women" around for him to resist, asked for and got, as a rider to his divorce decree, a court order restraining him from marriage for two years...
...half-breed Indian girl who works on the Barrymore ranch. She is mildly mystified by the pure love that good Joe Gotten offers her. But her savage blood beats a wild response to the dishonorable advances of that fascinating rascal, Peck. She tries ever so desperately to resist the bad man. She tries - and fails provocatively, in a low-cut bodice - first in the ranch house, and again on the rush-fringed riverbank, and several times in her own dimly lighted bunkhouse, and. even as she is dying, on a sun-scorched mountaintop. The audience eventually learns (thanks...
...scratchy and uncertain as a wrong key at a lock. Barker's scenes with his designing secretary (played by his wife, Pearl) often carry off the show. "There," says Pearl, "two eyes looking at you so tenderly, two soft arms offering you something you can't possibly resist." Barker: "Camembert!" Pearl: "No, Love!" Barker (with a quivery laugh): "Steady, Barker...
Clean Wind. A.A.'s method (inspired by William James's Varieties of Religious Experience) rests on an appeal to a Higher Power (God, or whatever Force the member prefers) for strength to resist the compulsion to drink. Founder Bill, describing his "spiritual awakening," said: "I felt lifted up, as though the great clean wind of a mountaintop blew through and through." Psychiatrists, who use much fancier words, describe the process as the "use of a religious or spiritual force to attack the fundamental narcissism of the alcoholic...
...democratic organizations. A witch-hunt indiscriminately pinning the Red label to independent-thinking individuals or magnifying the significance of the neurotic schoolboy Party Liner will only serve to arouse thousands of students across the country in defense of civil liberties. The informed in every stratum of society will surely resist obvious hysteria-shenanigans. Republican leaders are inviting near-unanimous condemnation from intelligent citizens if they throw thought-police methods in the face of American Education...