Word: resistive
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Kindneas rather then severity was his falling. He simply could not resist ability in a student, and there was nothing he would not and did not do for the possessor of it--by the expenditure of time or money, admiration or cigars...
...quarantines. We cannot "quarrel our way into their good will," said he. "I hope we shall show . . . that we deem it better policy to feed nations than to starve them." He was double-damned as the spokesman of property-although, like Herbert Hoover, his main aim was to resist ideas which he believed would eventually turn the republic into a tyranny...
...Hitler succeeds in disposing of Russia this fall or next spring, it may be necessary once again to revise ideas of how the war is going. Britain has shown no signs of being able to resist a major Nazi attack on Africa-either toward Suez or Dakar. Also, if Russia falls, the Japanese are likely to cut loose-falling first on Siberia, later on Singapore, the Indies, Australia...
...wartime. And it exploits all the emotions aroused in the U.S. by the war-even to political gags at which America Firsters clap and a set (by Jo Mielziner, showing bomb-Blitzed London) which, without a line being spoken, draws a round of compassionate applause. No audience can resist The Wookey...
...beginning, urged all aid to the Allies short of war as a means of keeping American soldiers on this side of the ocean. For if England and France should begin to loss the CRIMSON declared, pressure on this country to enter the war would become too great to resist...