Word: resistive
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...discover that he felt better than he had before. Shucks, that was a cinch, thought Vag. "Thank you very much for your contribution," said the nurse as he walked out. "Don't mention it," he replied benignly. Just as he got to the door, however, he could not resist the temptation. He turned, struck a pose, and declared to the world at large, "My only regret is that I have but one pint to give to my country...
...possible political power in a new U.S.A. would be Chief Nana Kojo Agyeaman of the Brongs. Impatient with Vichy's failure to resist Germany, he recently led his tribe from the French Ivory Coast to British Ashanti adjoining the Gold Coast. As they marched, the Brongs chanted a traditional song...
...hostile Senate and a suspicious House gang up on the two agencies, the direct and indirect losses cannot be quickly or easily recouped. It is difficult to resist the urge to prune a group whose members do not vote, but it may be wise to remember that NYA and CCC beneficiaries will not be minors forever...
...knew what had caused relapses in his patients. Said he: "The cumulative effect of a diet of corrupting melodrama could not fail to product an 'anxiety state.' Even those patients who were cautioned of the baleful effects of listening to these serials found it harder to resist. . . . The hairline that divides the normal from the neurotic . . . can disappear from such influence as the unwitting sadism of suppurating serials...
...cause to lie so near the surface. We are on the defensive militarily, just as we are on the defensive politically, economically, and psychologically, because basically we think of ourselves as representatives of the status quo, attempting to preserve it against a powerful new order. We are attempting to resist the principle of change, and we are beginning to see the hopelessness of that task. Upon our ability to develop plans for our own new order, and to fight the war with these plans in view, depends victory or defeat...