Word: resistant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first day only one fighter was badly hurt, eight others injured. In four days' fighting last year, 144 ticos were hurt, including a woman named Chica Mena who could not resist the temptation to join in. This year's feature: night fighting, with black bulls...
...chided, only went farther. In a letter not reported in the U.S. until last week, he replied: "On the day when the unions act on instructions from a political party, union liberty will be ended. ... In Mexico we recognize the patriotic alliance with the industrial bourgeoisie in order to resist imperialism. The class struggle without quarter is an error...
...come? The obvious answer was that Big Steel's offer was too good to resist. Stockholders would cash in on Consolidated's lush wartime operations, not have to risk peacetime competition. Big Steel would get a thriving company (with a $35 million backlog) and a fabricator for the vast production of its Geneva plant. Steelmen gossiped that Big Steel, impressed by the way Roach had pulled Consolidated off the rocks, intended to get him too. But Roach was mum about that...
Henry L Mencken, the high-flavored sage of Baltimore, was right in there with Edmund Wilson. A Canadian book firm owned by the United Church of Canada suddenly stopped distributing Mencken's Christmas Story-a timely tale of a bunch of bums who could not resist singing hymns when they got drunk. Decided the firm: it was "not a suitable book for us to handle." Mencken readily agreed: "I simply can't imagine anything so ribald being circulated by ecclesiastical publishers...
...Dahl's Boston," wrote Morton in an aside, "is essentially a village, not a city. ... Its physical center is the village green, or Boston Common. It has a bandstand, Symphony Hall; a library, the Athenaeum." Morton could not resist a jab at its press: "Its newspapers are dailies instead of weeklies, but in other respects they are reasonably to be compared with the lesser journals of Berkshire County, rural Indiana, and Long Island...