Word: resistive
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...Hitler's order was clear: resist−or die. The Germans fought. Rotmistrov's old enemy, Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein, whom he had whipped a year earlier below Stalingrad, hurled eight tank divisions against the ring. The ring was dented, but it did not break...
...refusal to recognize the Villarroel regime. This action was a stinging slap for Argentina's Colonels. The Bolivian regime of Gualberto Villarroel, recognized only by Argentina, was firmly in the hemispheric doghouse; the U.S. was trying to line up its Latin friends in a united front to resist any further aggressions by Argentina. Then, when the stage was set, U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull prepared to loose a long-advertised blast against the Argentine and Bolivian regimes...
...Fellow doctors, if we do not exert ourselves, you will be mobilized in Germany, then shifted to the battlefields of the East where, in a German uniform, you will die for the King of Prussia. . . . Help to resist deportation by eliminating as many Frenchmen as you can at 'medical examinations'. . . . Prepare to stay in France in spite of the order...
Walter Hampden stopped the show at a Manhattan revival of The Patriots-in order to resist an invasion of paper planes from the moppetous matinee audience. The lean-faced romantic actor, a grandfather, managed ultimately to finish the performance by threatening not to. "After all," he observed, "The Patriots is an adult play...
...Wummer, wife of the New York Philharmonic's first flutist, served accompaniments to those who wanted them, as a hostess might serve canapés. Near the door stood one of the club's nonflutist members, one Edwin Rosenblum of Brooklyn, who loathes the flute but cannot resist the morbid spectacle of an army of flutists pilliwinking away at once...