Word: resistive
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...wooden-legged employer (Edward G. Robinson) that the deserted Red House near the farm is strictly taboo. So are the deep woods that surround it. No reasons are given, beyond Farmer Robinson's obvious terror. Nath and the farmer's adopted child (Allene Roberts), thus forbidden, cannot resist trying to find out what it's all about. They are variously hindered by Nath's lush sweetheart (Julie London) and her sinister spare-time boy friend (Rory Calhoun). Their quest for the core of the farmer's terror results, first of all, in some effectively staged...
That was just the sort of appeal a great architect found it hard to resist. Last week Wright turned up in Nicholas Daphne's San Francisco office and unrolled the brown wrapping paper from his plans for a $500,000 mortuary to end all mortuaries. Mr. Daphne, who owns three already, was well pleased. His site was a rocky knoll off upper Market Street, its only building a battered shed decorated with an old election poster. When Wright gets through with it the place will resemble a miniature World's Fair; a glamorous cousin of Southern California...
...losing its standing with all the well-meaning people of the world. The real problem is not to resist, antagonize or humiliate Russia. . . . The outside world may hope to have real peace with Russia only in case the united front does not take a military or political form, not a division into two camps, but represents a circle of ethical unity in which the Russians would always be welcomed to take an honorable place...
...first day only one fighter was badly hurt, eight others injured. In four days' fighting last year, 144 ticos were hurt, including a woman named Chica Mena who could not resist the temptation to join in. This year's feature: night fighting, with black bulls...
...come? The obvious answer was that Big Steel's offer was too good to resist. Stockholders would cash in on Consolidated's lush wartime operations, not have to risk peacetime competition. Big Steel would get a thriving company (with a $35 million backlog) and a fabricator for the vast production of its Geneva plant. Steelmen gossiped that Big Steel, impressed by the way Roach had pulled Consolidated off the rocks, intended to get him too. But Roach was mum about that...