Word: resistive
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...Elijah Jones. But Mr. Green did not return the usual answer: he allowed that he smoked. Bishop Jones thereupon barred him from the conference. Said the Bishop: "If a man cannot free himself of the spell of some little inanimate object like a cigaret, how could he expect to resist a real temptation...
...hardly exaggerating. In a recently published article, Elliott answers with a grim negative the question, "Can America Risk Isolation?" His arguments for a more vigorous defense of Uncle Sam's selfish international interests are at once the most compelling and the most treacherous which the American people must resist in their fight to stay out of World...
...starry-eyed and reciting poetry -- Professor Elliott's case for intervention is extremely dangerous. We are making the mistake made by the British at Munich, he says, and if we allow the force to disorder a victory in Europe, we will soon be driven to resist that force in Brazil or somewhere in what was left of the British Empire." The English navy is essential to the maintenance of peace in the Far East...
...going to resist it," Texas' Senator Tom Connally promised grimly. "The Mannerheim Line will not even be a starter...
...Jerome Frank which you ran on your front page this week is atrocious. You try to make him out as an ogre. I have met him and he is a very charming and handsome man. Your story on him is a mixture of reluctant fairness and failure to resist your general temptation to belittle big men who try to render a conscientious public service...