Word: resistant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...influential Asahi worried over the "destruction of our traffic system as well as our electrical, gas and water supplies." Farmers were officially admonished to increase food production. The Bank of Japan limited reports because of disruption of communications. The Stock Exchange closed down. Japan's battered will to resist began to stiffen in rigor mortis...
...Resist any suggestion of illness. Look at some fixed position such as the horizon, if possible, and assure yourself that your body is fixed and perfect, but that the surroundings are acting up and should be disregarded...
...bomb was something more than an instrument to shape 1945's history. It represented a brutal challenge to the world to keep the peace. The scientists had created, and had successfully applied, a weapon which might wipe out with a few strokes any nation's power to resist an enemy...
...part of the answer was unknown and unknowable: would, or could, the Japanese continue to resist until each of their cities had been atomized, and then fight on the beaches, in the fields and the hills, and in their countless caves, until every sacred acre had been physically conquered...
Soon the musicians, unable to resist their feverish rhythms, stood up and swayed while they played. "Now we're rocking," said Brick. Even the engineers in the control room began to get rhythm. The trombones growled another G, then faded out. The Sheaves were cut, and the club circulated a bottle...