Word: resistive
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...only praise and apology for Russia. Said he: "It comes with ill grace from certain world powers whose troops are stationed in every nation from Egypt to Singapore to make a world conflagration out of the movement of a few troops a few miles into a neighboring territory to resist an oil monopoly...
Chips to Cash. Until she reaches the point where Britain and the U.S. are really ready to resist, Russia will try to cash every chip she can while the world is still unsettled. The men in the Kremlin, who have an eye for history and long-range trends, know well that Russia can expand far more readily in the unsettled 19405 than in the 19505, when the peace treaties will have been written and the world's pattern solidified...
...Continent's poverty also served better than centuries of papal scolding to subdue the pre-Lenten orgies of Carnival. Fun-loving Italians, hungry or not, could not resist their first chance for many years to don strange hats and masks, plunge into a sea of confetti. But Germany's famed Faschings at Cologne and Munich were canceled. Said a Munich city official: "Fasching needs a carefree spirit and abundance; today there is an abundance of tears, worry and rubble...
...drown the noise. Prime Minister Attlee appointed a three-man Cabinet committee to plan the strategy for "the Battle of the Bread." Minister of Agriculture Tom Williams launched a new "Dig for Victory" campaign. Lord Aberconway, president of the Royal Horticultural Society, announced that his members would continue to resist the temptation to reconvert to flowers. Pert Minister of Education Ellen Wilkinson appealed to Britons to carry on in "the Dunkirk spirit...
...toes in Florida's sand. In Washington there was the Pearl Harbor Investigating Committee, its Republican members eager to burrow into what pledges, if any, Franklin Roosevelt and Churchill had exchanged before Dec. 7, 1941. The temptation was too strong for Michigan's Senator Homer Ferguson to resist. Hopefully he moved, "in utter seriousness," that the committee ask the former Prime Minister to be a witness...