Word: resistant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which would completely horrify both Rudolph Valentino and William Jennings Bryan, this cast of characters gives ICCASP a unique leverage on thousands of U.S. voters. Some men & women, whose every instinct rebels against the sound of a politician's voice, are so conditioned that they are unable to resist when their favorite movie star whoops up an issue...
...completely unendurable in a country adequately prepared and strong enough to withstand the first onslaught. The length of the war would certainly be increased by adequate dispersion of great industrial areas and the construction of subterranean factories. . . . We can expect war to continue until . . . the will to resist is finally broken...
...disease seems to strike hardest at the healthiest; because children with vitamin deficiencies seem to resist infection, doctors surmise that the polio virus does not thrive on undernourished body cells...
...Manager Eddie Dyer, up from the Cardinal farm chain, was two or three deep in talent at most positions, and had a grade-A pitching staff of 26. Somebody had to go to get the roster down to the June 15 30-player maximum. Boss Sam Breadon could not resist the $175,000 that the Giants offered for Catcher Walker Cooper. Infielder Emil Verban and Outfielder Johnny Hopp were sold to the Phillies and the Braves. Ace Pitchers Max Lanier (who had won his first six starts for the Cards) and Fred Martin went of their own accord to Mexico...
Ralph Waldo Emerson, the barnstorming lecturer to the U.S., as Lowell remembered him: "There is a kind of undertow in that rich baritone of his that sweeps our minds from their foothold into deeper waters with a drift we cannot and would not resist. . . . Behind each word we divine the force of a noble character, the weight of a large capital of thinking and being. We do not go to hear what Emerson says so much as to hear Emerson. . . . If asked what was left? what we carried home? . . . we might have asked in return what one brought away from...