Word: resistant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knew what had caused relapses in his patients. Said he: "The cumulative effect of a diet of corrupting melodrama could not fail to product an 'anxiety state.' Even those patients who were cautioned of the baleful effects of listening to these serials found it harder to resist. . . . The hairline that divides the normal from the neurotic . . . can disappear from such influence as the unwitting sadism of suppurating serials...
...cause to lie so near the surface. We are on the defensive militarily, just as we are on the defensive politically, economically, and psychologically, because basically we think of ourselves as representatives of the status quo, attempting to preserve it against a powerful new order. We are attempting to resist the principle of change, and we are beginning to see the hopelessness of that task. Upon our ability to develop plans for our own new order, and to fight the war with these plans in view, depends victory or defeat...
...gallant, stocky man who likes to play peasant songs on the mandolin. For months, in the Yugoslav mountains south of Belgrade, General Draja Mihailovich and his 100,000 super-guerrillas have fought off as many as seven German divisions (TIME, Dec. 15), inspired by a magnificent will to resist. But recently General Mihailovich radioed the exiled Yugoslav Government in London that his ammunition was running...
...Take heart! Resist much! Fight how you can! We are building for you, we are on the move...
After being informed that all aboard were safe, sly Foreign Minister Aranha could not resist a diplomatic jest. "The plane was not overloaded," said he. "It was simply Ruiz Guiñazú's conscience that was heavy...