Word: resistive
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Slacks and shorts, not long ago a real menace, must go, says the students Government. And clothing is to be applied "mere fully". "Lounging too, is taboo, and dire tidings avail those who cannot resist the temptation to smear the face which should be all earn lectures...
Normans are French. Before the invasion, people outside of France imagined that there would be an unbridgeable chasm between resist ants and collaborateurs. Nor mandy may not be typical of all France...
...world's No. 1 expert on cereal diseases. On a 40-acre laboratory plot at Minnesota, he cultivates almost every plant disease known to the Midwest. There are thousands upon thousands. Stake's object is to develop tough new varieties of wheat and other cereals that will resist these diseases. But no sooner does he defeat one disease than a brand-new one, almost invariably, breaks out. Thirty-five years of such battling has convinced Stake that, for all of science, the best man can ever hope to do against bugs and plant disease is to hold...
...same, said Volf, holds true for drunks. He declared that he had found from careful observation that helpless drunks always walk east, fall down when they try to walk west. A drunk, Volf noted further, will resist entering a car or patrol wagon when it faces west but climb aboard willingly if it faces east. And he is much easier to lift to his feet if he faces east. Another useful tip: some drunks only fight facing eastward. Volf advice: "The fight may be avoided if the opponent will cause the intoxicant to face westward. This impels the intoxicant...
...latest news from the BBC twice a day. The underground press works very hard and Norwegians are well informed about what is going on in the world. When the R.A.F. bombed Oslo they killed some civilians. The quislings made big headings in the paper to show us that Germans resist an awful people trying to bomb out civilians, but we knew the R.A.F. was trying to hit the Gestapo headquarters. It is bad, of course, that civilians have to be killed, but it was a good try and we didn't care...