Word: resistant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...help to the Russians than it is now sending. But as a diplomatic gesture, the President's act was of prime importance. It made Russia, like Britain, a virtual ally of the U.S. And in effect it guaranteed to Joseph Stalin that as long as Russia continues to resist, the flow of supplies from the U.S. will continue also...
...caliber machine guns. Their pilots sat in a comforting body of armor. Up above the two-mile mark they hunted for their first live targets. But no Messerschmitts appeared. The Airacobras waited a while, then turned homeward in a grey swoop. On the way the commander could not resist trying out his deadly new toys. He brought the squadron low over a French port. Said he, when the Airacobras were safely home again: "We made a German ship unhappy and brushed some Germans off a wharf...
Kindneas rather then severity was his falling. He simply could not resist ability in a student, and there was nothing he would not and did not do for the possessor of it--by the expenditure of time or money, admiration or cigars...
...quarantines. We cannot "quarrel our way into their good will," said he. "I hope we shall show . . . that we deem it better policy to feed nations than to starve them." He was double-damned as the spokesman of property-although, like Herbert Hoover, his main aim was to resist ideas which he believed would eventually turn the republic into a tyranny...
...Hitler succeeds in disposing of Russia this fall or next spring, it may be necessary once again to revise ideas of how the war is going. Britain has shown no signs of being able to resist a major Nazi attack on Africa-either toward Suez or Dakar. Also, if Russia falls, the Japanese are likely to cut loose-falling first on Siberia, later on Singapore, the Indies, Australia...