Word: resistive
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...opening minutes of a very even battle has one of the best teams on the ice this season. Last year they exhibited a system of team-play that was uncanny in its effectiveness. With unlimited substitutions allowed in this contest, the Crimson team should be able to resist the attacks of the Canadian skaters and put up another close fight...
...firemen until, convinced that they were louts, I climbed up a gutter pipe to direct their efforts. Stoutly, I shouted commands. My wife, the irrepressible daughter of the late Marshall Field (Dry Goods), cried to our guests: 'You see, the boy stands on the burning deck! Lord Beatty can resist everything but the temptation to command...
...Loucheur and his friends have the money and the power to realize their ideal. But will they? Can they resist the pressure of Anglo-Saxon gold upon their vacuum? Probably they cannot. Thrifty, as are nearly all Frenchmen, they are already rumored to entertain the possibility of selling to three non-Latins a third each of one of their hundred acres for a sum sufficiently stupendous to pay the expenses of developing the other...
...When the textile workers have proved that a homogeneous group of people can resist the methods employed by the mill owners for the greater part of a year, it seems evident that the nation is in sympathy with the strike. There has never been a strike in industrial history before that has lasted so long or given rise to such bitter and varied issues as the Passaic demonstration. The mill-owners have lost over $50,000,000 during the 43 weeks of the strike. The suffering of the workers has been incalculable...
...amazing succession, so that even the most-cynical of males would be sated, and turn trustingly to his companion. "No woman could lie like that." Yet, despite the never ending procession of lies the play palls during the second act, palls indeed until The-Shot-Outside. No audience can resist The-Shot-Outside...