Word: resistant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dakar, where he took some lead in his thigh. After he recovered from his wound in French Equatorial Africa, where he organized Free French merchant shipping, he went to Canada to lecture, back to London to broadcast, and then, on the destroyer Le Triomphant, out to romantic Oceania to resist...
...triumph won by the U.S. delegate was nipped by a U.S. ineptitude. In Washington Senator Tom Connally, head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, could not resist putting in his two bits' worth about Argentina. Said he: "We are trusting that before this conference is over President Castillo will change his mind, or the Argentine people will change Presidents...
Silence lay over the islands that the Japanese had overrun. That silence was to be expected from the 600,000 Moros of the South, one of the most warlike peoples in the world, who approved U.S. rule, did not want Philippine independence, could be counted on to resist the Japanese as fiercely as they once resisted the Spaniards and the Americans. Silence was to be expected from the Ilocanos, the ingenious "Yankees of the Philippines" in whose villages life followed its immemorial pattern regardless of conquest. Silence was expected from the Chinese who tend the stores in the villages...
...Almighty that He give to the German people and to its soldiers the strength to resist with valiant hearts for the maintenance of our liberties and our future. . . . The year 1942-and we pray to God, all of us, that it may-should bring the decision which will save our people and with them our allied nations...
Russia's most serious problem is that of keeping supply lines open, he continned. Because of the recent decentralizatien movement of preducation centers, they have, of reach of the Navia at present, scufficient law materials and industrial facilities to resist a long siege...