Word: resistive
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...have observed with sympathy your editorial efforts to resist the hysteria which is rising around you. Certainly you have not had much help from your elders, who have chosen to deny the realities of the last twenty years and to return to the exhilarating days of 1917. They have shown no hesitation in turning the classroom into a camp, the lecture hall into a recruiting station. That minority of the faculty which disagrees has been more scrupulous--too scrupulous, I think--and the time has come when we too should speak our minds. It may come as something...
...fight now going on directed against fascism? If so, is it not necessary to condemn fascism without equivocation to resist it effectively? Are not half-hearted measures fatal, as they are doomed to failure and hasten the extension to the rest of the world of the social and economic system which already exists in Germany, Italy, and Spain...
...bear the juggernauts' weight. Between planes overhead and the clanking mastodons on the ground, radio contact was kept up constantly. Timing was worked out to a matter of seconds. Fire-power of the break-through tanks was several heavy machine guns, plus light cannon. Their armor could resist any fire short of 75 mm. at all ordinary ranges-a fact which nullified the French defense plan of 25 mm. anti-tank guns arranged in depth. Once through, the break-through tanks sought only to smash up all anti-tank weapons in sight, then to plunge ahead...
...Norway, indomitable old King Haakon, a refugee within his own country, broadcast another appeal to his people to resist, gave no sign that he would flee abroad...
...junction of the Albert Canal and the Meuse River. Its commandant and 1,000 men surrendered within a few hours, paralyzed by "nerve gas" or some other secret German weapon. But unlike 1914, Belgium was not wholly unprepared this time. And even more than then, she was heartened to resist. In his war proclamation, King Leopold said...