Word: resistant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Walter Hampden stopped the show at a Manhattan revival of The Patriots-in order to resist an invasion of paper planes from the moppetous matinee audience. The lean-faced romantic actor, a grandfather, managed ultimately to finish the performance by threatening not to. "After all," he observed, "The Patriots is an adult play...
...Wummer, wife of the New York Philharmonic's first flutist, served accompaniments to those who wanted them, as a hostess might serve canapés. Near the door stood one of the club's nonflutist members, one Edwin Rosenblum of Brooklyn, who loathes the flute but cannot resist the morbid spectacle of an army of flutists pilliwinking away at once...
Allied air blows will knock out Germany or leave the Nazis too groggy to resist invasion. So predicted ebullient General "Hap" Arnold, Chief of the U.S. Army Air Forces. Said he: "As the number of bombers increases, the percentage of losses is going to decrease. Operations from Italy are going to force the Germans to spread their defenses. . . . We hope to bring over Europe such [forces] that, with Russia, we will have 360-degree bombing of Germany-hitting her from every side...
...save the United States of America. God give to her all she should have. God preserve her in the days to come. I know what they will bring. I have been through such days. But God be good to us and permit us to resist, and permit us to be the country we have ever been...
...week read Dr. Straumfjord's claims with an interest tempered with skepticism. Most of them have fought acne with vaccine injections, soaps, yeast, X rays, ultraviolet rays, lectures against picking, antiseptics, astringents, medicated creams, diets, vitamins, hormones, encouragement. They have seen one case yield to X rays, another resist. To them acne is still one of medicine's most baffling mysteries...