Word: resistive
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...Resist any suggestion of illness. Look at some fixed position such as the horizon, if possible, and assure yourself that your body is fixed and perfect, but that the surroundings are acting up and should be disregarded...
...bomb was something more than an instrument to shape 1945's history. It represented a brutal challenge to the world to keep the peace. The scientists had created, and had successfully applied, a weapon which might wipe out with a few strokes any nation's power to resist an enemy...
...Ruins. On the east side, where the workers live and the Russians rule, the damage is greater than in the west. This part of Berlin was fought through, and some of its streets are still impassable. For block after block the houses look gutted, but so stubbornly do buildings resist destruction that in many of these houses two or three rooms are still occupied, and there are even flower pots in some of the windows...
Soon the musicians, unable to resist their feverish rhythms, stood up and swayed while they played. "Now we're rocking," said Brick. Even the engineers in the control room began to get rhythm. The trombones growled another G, then faded out. The Sheaves were cut, and the club circulated a bottle...
...move the papers from presses to stands were on strike. The Newspaper and Mail Deliverers Union had demanded higher wages, vacations with pay and an employer-financed benefit fund. The newspapers, weighing strike losses in circulation (and advertising guarantees) against gains in unused newsprint allowances, had decided to resist. Result: you could 1) go to a newspaper plant and wait your turn in a long line; 2) catch the news on the radio*; 3) do without. There was also a hard-to-find black market, with a few enterprising newsboys cleaning up in a small...