Word: resistant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...planning has been the redoubtable McCormick (shades of Ely!) Plan, which proposes an Anglo-American Union that would give the British Empire one-sixth the votes given the U. S. and would reduce England to the position of North Dakota. The Great Journalist thinks the Britons too decrepit to resist anyway...
...plan's emphasis on gold was likely to get political approval. But expert O. M. W. Sprague, former economic adviser to the Treasury and to the Bank of England, came out for Keynes, termed the White plan overcomplicated, warned that nations with little or no gold would certainly resist any attempt by the U.S. to use the metal for purposes of domination...
Hollywood can't resist throwing in a little war drama these days, even when Deanna Durbin's the better half of the oil and water combination. Universal's number one box office attraction plays the part of a China missionary's daughter who brings a band of orphans, (the boys are cute and the girls are mournful), to America. The recent best-seller "Keys of the Kingdom" won our hearts on behalf of Chinese missionaries, and there is absolutely no reason for disliking their daughters. But the story doesn't begin to perk up until Barry Fitzgerald arrives...
...state here, and with the greatest emphasis, that if, at the conclusion of war, our rights are not respected and our long and passionate devotion to freedom is not taken into consideration, all Poles, irrespective of religious or political creed, will be united to the last man to resist any claims which aim at the sovereignty of our country, from whatever quarter they might be raised...
...about 23 per cent which is of course only an approximation at best since the temptation to play around varied with the questions. However, this estimate from the negative point of view ties in with the positive example of the aforementioned Casey Jones, where 31.5 per cent couldn't resist...