Word: resistive
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Shortly before he died, in his 78th year, the artist summed up the major interest of his working years. Said he: "If I had been an oyster, I'd have drawn girl oysters. Wherever I looked I saw those beautiful girls, and who was I to resist...
Ordeal and Rebirth. Yet when the war came, the legends of resistance seeping out of occupied countries were starred with names of heroic men of God. Niemöller, Faulhaber and Galen in Germany itself, Hlond in Poland, De Jong in Holland, Damaskinos* in Greece and the aged Patriarch Gavrilo Dozich in Yugoslavia, all stood firm against the Nazis. With them stood a host of unnamed churchmen, like the 1,300 priests slaughtered in Poland, the priest and the pastor in Czechoslovakia who together faced a firing squad avenging the death of Heydrich the Hangman, and the French priest active...
...Japs had been among the first belligerents to use airborne troops in combat. At Palembang they had used them successfully. But that was in February 1942, against a foe ill-equipped to resist them. Last week, when they tried airborne attacks again, the Japs landed in a different league...
Some educators may also resist any Government attempt to go into what they consider their field-the training of the country's youth...
With characteristic (Tobacco Road) humor, Caldwell spotlights a Southern squatter community, called Poor Boy, and follows the dreamy, hard-drinking career of a onetime highly-paid war worker, called Spence Douthit, who amiably man ages to resist every attempted reform -including his own delinquent daughter's. Caldwell's characters, as usual, outrage every decent instinct and stir every other kind...