Word: resistant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proof, mortar-proof nests beneath the roots of the giant jungle trees. He has put keeneyed snipers in hundreds of treetops. He has mown down the grass and jungles to give lanes of sweeping fire to his guns. From such positions companies can hold up battalions, and battalions can resist divisions...
These voices of defiance struck sympathetic chords in millions of French hearts. Hitler called the trial off hurriedly. But it was too late. France had awakened, not to collaborate but to resist...
...Queen Victoria's uncle, the Duke of Sussex, who insisted on giving Mrs. Webster a prize strawberry "from his own plate." Said Mrs. Webster ungratefully: "A thorough radical and not very refined." The Queen gave them "a superb dinner" served on gold & silver plates. Mrs. Webster could not resist washing her hands in the ladies' room "to show that I knew the use of the scented water and napkins...
...reports showed that the stubborn Japs had organized everything which they thought necessary to retake Guadalcanal once & for all. They formed a powerful bombardment task force, including battleships, which was to come in with the most terrifying kind of attack, night shelling, and pound the will to resist out of the U.S. beachhead. Then convoys of transports with over 20,000 troops and with all essential weapons, such as tanks and heavy artillery, were to effect landings. Then, perhaps with the help of carrier-based air attacks, the entire force was to do its final job. That was what...
...January 1940 Jean Hélion, 38, left the U.S., his American wife and infant son. Says Artist Hélion: "I could not resist going back to fight the Nazis...