Word: resistant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sicily the Allies might uncover the true temper of Italy after three years of battle, privation and defeat; her will to resist further, her loyalty to Fascism...
...great emotion-the emotion of a people which has found courage, found arms, the hope of democratic freedom and the will to resist-is the overriding element in the situation. . . . France is finding herself. . . . [She] will force to the front the voices which can express that faith and the men who can fight for it. It was this emotional content in the whole situation . . . which our official policy never seemed to appreciate...
...have no trouble excelling So Help Me in literary merit, none can hope to outdo it for frankness and questionable taste. Jessel shoots the works, Rousseaus his wild oats, touts his triumphs, flaunts his flops, underscores his drinking, italicizes his debts, is sometimes hard to take, occasionally hard to resist, always human...
Holland. Underground tribunals sentenced 47 collaborationists to death; by week's end 17 had been executed. Desperate Nazi officials ordered the internment of 450,000 demobilized Dutch soldiers, declared martial law throughout Holland. The Netherlands Government in Exile radioed instructions to stalwart Hollanders to resist the internment order by every possible means, but 18,500 Dutch veterans were soon rounded up and in concentration camps...
Most Finns now believe that Germany will lose the war. But they insist that Finland must resist to the last, hoping that Russia will be so weak at the end that Finland can hold the territories which the Russians seized in 1940. The Finns refuse to believe that these territories-as vital to Russian security as they are dear to the Finns-would ever be theirs by a voluntary settlement...