Word: resistive
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...nation which unhesitatingly chose to resist the Axis rather than collaborate, at a time when help could only be nominal, was Greece. By resisting, Greece did incalculable service to the anti-Axis cause: she exposed the phony Italian war machine, and she upset Hitler's timetable against Russia...
...task, he now realized, for flesh and blood. Considering Miss Bergman's mental picture of an American female executive, the casting of the role was brilliantly lucky. He sent over a particularly tactful lady named Kay Brown. And that did it. Miss Bergman was braced to resist something in unshaven tweeds with a Cremo breath and a voice like a moose decoy. What she met was "so sweet and human that I decided that anyone she worked for" (Mr. Selznick walked up the walls in devilish glee) "couldn't be nearly so crazy as I expected." When...
...class at Yale, and a member of the teetotaling Philencratian Society. At 16, Judah was bluntly bounced out of Yale. Probable reasons: "association with a set of disorderly fellows who were addicted to card playing and gambling," theft, mysterious temptations "which he had not the moral force to resist." Judah went to New Orleans to make his fortune...
...Sicily the Allies might uncover the true temper of Italy after three years of battle, privation and defeat; her will to resist further, her loyalty to Fascism...
...great emotion-the emotion of a people which has found courage, found arms, the hope of democratic freedom and the will to resist-is the overriding element in the situation. . . . France is finding herself. . . . [She] will force to the front the voices which can express that faith and the men who can fight for it. It was this emotional content in the whole situation . . . which our official policy never seemed to appreciate...