Word: resistive
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...have no trouble excelling So Help Me in literary merit, none can hope to outdo it for frankness and questionable taste. Jessel shoots the works, Rousseaus his wild oats, touts his triumphs, flaunts his flops, underscores his drinking, italicizes his debts, is sometimes hard to take, occasionally hard to resist, always human...
Holland. Underground tribunals sentenced 47 collaborationists to death; by week's end 17 had been executed. Desperate Nazi officials ordered the internment of 450,000 demobilized Dutch soldiers, declared martial law throughout Holland. The Netherlands Government in Exile radioed instructions to stalwart Hollanders to resist the internment order by every possible means, but 18,500 Dutch veterans were soon rounded up and in concentration camps...
Most Finns now believe that Germany will lose the war. But they insist that Finland must resist to the last, hoping that Russia will be so weak at the end that Finland can hold the territories which the Russians seized in 1940. The Finns refuse to believe that these territories-as vital to Russian security as they are dear to the Finns-would ever be theirs by a voluntary settlement...
...planning has been the redoubtable McCormick (shades of Ely!) Plan, which proposes an Anglo-American Union that would give the British Empire one-sixth the votes given the U. S. and would reduce England to the position of North Dakota. The Great Journalist thinks the Britons too decrepit to resist anyway...
...plan's emphasis on gold was likely to get political approval. But expert O. M. W. Sprague, former economic adviser to the Treasury and to the Bank of England, came out for Keynes, termed the White plan overcomplicated, warned that nations with little or no gold would certainly resist any attempt by the U.S. to use the metal for purposes of domination...