Word: resistant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ruins. On the east side, where the workers live and the Russians rule, the damage is greater than in the west. This part of Berlin was fought through, and some of its streets are still impassable. For block after block the houses look gutted, but so stubbornly do buildings resist destruction that in many of these houses two or three rooms are still occupied, and there are even flower pots in some of the windows...
...move the papers from presses to stands were on strike. The Newspaper and Mail Deliverers Union had demanded higher wages, vacations with pay and an employer-financed benefit fund. The newspapers, weighing strike losses in circulation (and advertising guarantees) against gains in unused newsprint allowances, had decided to resist. Result: you could 1) go to a newspaper plant and wait your turn in a long line; 2) catch the news on the radio*; 3) do without. There was also a hard-to-find black market, with a few enterprising newsboys cleaning up in a small...
Japan might still be able to resist long and fiercely. But across the world's biggest ocean the U.S. was bodily moving its fighting manpower and an unprecedented mass of weapons for the kill. Vast areas of industrial Japan were in ruins from bombing. A more & more hermetic blockade from sea and air was closing in. In Okinawa the U.S. forces were only 325 miles from the home archipelago. From Siberia fell the lengthening shadow of Russia. Cried Premier Kantaro Suzuki: Japan's crisis "is the greatest since the Mongolian invasion...
Loud Resentment. Except for the Catholics, all Belgian parties of the left and center had joined to resist the royal return. Behind this loud resistance was Belgian loud resentment because Leopold had: 1) surrendered to Germany in 1940 instead of continuing the war in exile; 2) married a commoner, comely Mademoiselle Marie-Lelia Baels, while most of his subjects were suffering under the German occupation; 3) thereby become the son-in-law of a rich Belgian industrialist about to face a charge of collaboration with the enemy. There was no expressed opposition to the King's eldest son, Prince...
After a last drunken, hysterical broadcast, Joyce hid in a Flensburg hotel until he was shooed out by British soldiers, who thought he was a German. Later, on a road leading to Denmark, he met two British officers who were gathering firewood. Joyce could not resist the temptation to show off his ripe Oxonian accent...