Word: resistive
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Marshal Badoglio and his King escaped the Nazi net. At week's end, from refuge somewhere in the countryside, the Marshal and the King belatedly called upon their countrymen to resist the Germans...
Commanding in central and southern Italy was Air Marshal and General Albert Kesselring, who just missed death last week when his headquarters near Rome was bombed. His task was to resist, at a chosen point, the Allied penetration of lower Italy...
...zero hour the bulldozer advanced on the village and from the western sky at the same moment there swept an air escort of a single R.A.F. twin-engined Beaufighter, thus ensuring that Tommy would have his air cover against any resist ance during operations. As the bulldozer advanced into "action," the fighter dived on the village, firing a succession of Very-light (flare) cartridges. Resistance collapsed. The "enemy" surrendered and the operations were concluded...
...outcome may be the same if the Red Army destroys the German Army or merely drives it back. If the Ukraine can be retaken, if the battle line can be shoved back into Poland-somewhere along the way, the German will to resist is almost certain to break...
...Juan March's nostrils apparently told him that the band wagon was turning into a one-hoss shay. Other Spaniards sniffed the same scent. Arriba, Falange newspaper in Madrid, termed Mussolini's fall "a symbol of a defeated people" and asked: "What power, what institution can today resist defeat...