Word: resistive
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...hesitated with reasons. One reason was the value of a diplomatic listening post in France. Another was the chance that the Germans might overplay their hand, arouse Vichy to partial resistance. The best reason was the small bet the U.S. has placed on General Maxime Weygand to resist any Axis attack on Vichyfrench Africa. General Weygand hates the guts of General de Gaulle...
...classy convertible, he is picked up by Janie, who recognizes the car and thinks Harry is Dick, whom she has not met but hopes to. She impulsively climbs in beside him. That night they go dancing -in a booth in a phonograph record shop. But Janie cannot resist the bushy-haired mechanic's impregnably impertinent charm. He: "I think maybe I'm in love with you." She: "You are?" He: "I think so." A pause and an arch look from Janie: "Well, when'll you know?" They know immediately because each time they kiss they hear...
Concluded Diario de Manhā: "It is legitimate that nations like Portugal protest pretensions affecting their dignity and rights of national sovereignty, and affirm aloud before the world their will and right to resist any aggression, no matter where it comes from...
...took an elevated train to Sherman Park. There he saw a boy and a girl sitting on the grass. The boy was 19-year-old John Miller, the girl was Mary Wodarczyk, another man's wife. Knifey held up Miller, shot him when he tried to resist. "He gets wise and starts scrapping," said Knifey, "so I shoot...
...that Dr. Bundesen's Blitzkrieg of publicity might stamp out Chicago syphilis by 1945. Besides wholesale blood-testing, Dr. Bundesen plans to hound every person who has a venereal disease into hospitals. He also threatened to tack up red quarantine posters on houses of prostitution where the inmates resist treatment. Every person who crosses the threshold of such a quarantined house will be liable to a fine of $200 and six months in jail...