Word: resistive
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Just when, if ever, would she return to the stage? Not till she found a play she couldn't resist. "It will either have to be about something very important,'' said she, "or about nothing at all. I would really like one about nothing...
...Capitol newsmen were betting that the President would find it hard to resist the urge for on-the-spot electioneering in such critical hotspots as California, Pennsylvania and his home state of Missouri...
...which would completely horrify both Rudolph Valentino and William Jennings Bryan, this cast of characters gives ICCASP a unique leverage on thousands of U.S. voters. Some men & women, whose every instinct rebels against the sound of a politician's voice, are so conditioned that they are unable to resist when their favorite movie star whoops up an issue...
...completely unendurable in a country adequately prepared and strong enough to withstand the first onslaught. The length of the war would certainly be increased by adequate dispersion of great industrial areas and the construction of subterranean factories. . . . We can expect war to continue until . . . the will to resist is finally broken...
...line around the Stelco (Steel Co. of Canada) plant, went some 400 Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Ontario provincial police. Their announced job was to keep materials and men who wanted to work moving into the plant. Across Canada, organized labor protested. At Hamilton, picketers defiantly said they would resist police interference. At week's end the police were still judiciously keeping hands off. But worried Hamiltonians walked on tiptoe, kept their fingers crossed...