Word: resistant
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Stalin still had the magnificent will to resist of the Russian people-who had as much claim to glory as the British people had when they withstood the blitz of 1940. But a strong people had not prevented the loss of White Russia and the Ukraine. Would they be any better able to prevent the conquest of the Don basin, of Stalingrad, of the Caucasus? The strongest will to resist can eventually crack under continued defeat...
...last organized Confederate resist ance east of the Mississippi was offered by Citadel cadets who engaged a band of raiders near Williamston, S.C. on May 9, 1865 - just a month after Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, where (says tradition) another Citadel man carried the flag of truce. Of The Citadel's 224 living graduates in 1864, some 200 served as Confederate officers...
Less candid was Mussolini when he quoted, and then answered, Winston Churchill's threat (TIME, Dec. 7) of "prolonged, scientific and systematic" bombing of southern Italy. Said Mussolini: "We have . . . shelters that can resist the biggest bombs." Other omissions...
...Germany," said Mussolini, "will give powerful assistance in the form of antiaircraft artillery to insure Italian defenses." He did not mention an estimated 250,000 German troops now in Italy to resist invasion-or to shoot Italians who do not fight. The arrival of Reich Marshal Hermann Goring and of Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler last week was expected to mean complete German control of military and civilian defenses. Germans realize that successful completion of the Allied invasion of North Africa (see p. 34), if followed by an invasion of Italy, would allow bombers to blast German war plants...
...tons of metal, decreed it should be demolished for scrap. Had he ordered the wrecking of the eleven-story pile of granite, ink and eloquence that is the Journal itself, Maria Jackson would hardly have been more shocked. She complained some, but being patriotic she did not resist...