Word: resistive
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Japan might still be able to resist long and fiercely. But across the world's biggest ocean the U.S. was bodily moving its fighting manpower and an unprecedented mass of weapons for the kill. Vast areas of industrial Japan were in ruins from bombing. A more & more hermetic blockade from sea and air was closing in. In Okinawa the U.S. forces were only 325 miles from the home archipelago. From Siberia fell the lengthening shadow of Russia. Cried Premier Kantaro Suzuki: Japan's crisis "is the greatest since the Mongolian invasion...
Loud Resentment. Except for the Catholics, all Belgian parties of the left and center had joined to resist the royal return. Behind this loud resistance was Belgian loud resentment because Leopold had: 1) surrendered to Germany in 1940 instead of continuing the war in exile; 2) married a commoner, comely Mademoiselle Marie-Lelia Baels, while most of his subjects were suffering under the German occupation; 3) thereby become the son-in-law of a rich Belgian industrialist about to face a charge of collaboration with the enemy. There was no expressed opposition to the King's eldest son, Prince...
After a last drunken, hysterical broadcast, Joyce hid in a Flensburg hotel until he was shooed out by British soldiers, who thought he was a German. Later, on a road leading to Denmark, he met two British officers who were gathering firewood. Joyce could not resist the temptation to show off his ripe Oxonian accent...
...rainy season added its wet misery to the Philippine fighting, two U.S. armies and their guerrilla allies clumped doggedly through the mud, compressing the Japanese into soggy pockets. Inside these pockets the Japanese continued to resist as well as any army can without help of sea or air power...
...mystified for a moment. The talk at intermission was unanimous -all in praise of the Graham skill. But the quixotic Graham, explaining things to the press, could not resist fuzzing up her new ballet's simplicity with a few of the old nuances: "I used my grandmother's stories of the pioneer days ... to build the framework of a nation. Spring is purely symbolic of the springtime of the nation. That is why the set is so simple with no green leaves...