Word: resistant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opening speeches were about such innocuous concerns as German unity and anti-Fascist solidarity. The Russian angel of the performance, a small, feral, red-eyed lieutenant colonel named Alexander Dymshitz, sat and beamed. But as the sessions wore on, the Reds could not resist the temptation to make political hay. Up stood one Vsevolod Vishnevsky, a Soviet author and war reporter in excellent standing with the Kremlin. He told how, during the siege of Leningrad, he had personally saved German anti-Fascist and classical literature from German bombs. That was all right, but he went...
...There was a trumpet player downstairs last year," muttered Scoutt, "whom we tried to isolate in PBH. After the snow fell we never really succeeded." Scoutt appeared a defeated man last night without will to resist, as he sadly admitted that arpeggios and corporate law make an indigestible mixture...
...swindled into it by this tremendous ego of mine. I'm like a chile, I tell yah! 'Al,' I said, 'Al, old fella, they wantcha again. They finally seen the light.' Oh Lawdy, I got 'em good. And I just couldn't resist rubbing their noses...
Under cover of darkness, the Haganah captain escaped the British and raced for the Palestine shore. The Arlossoroff beached in the little town of Bat Galim, near Haifa, and prepared to resist British boarding parties...
...they?- the fabulous anonymities people refer to in saying, "This is what they are wearing." Was it Mrs. Harrison Williams, Wallis Windsor, the French designers, the Sophie Gimbels? Finally, she asked Sophie: "Are you a they?" Said Sophie: "We'll soon know. If I can resist the very long skirt trend, I'll be sure...