Word: resistant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...According to Albert Einstein, the only organization which has consistently dared resist the Nazis inside Germany...
...Bulgaria's population are peace-loving, pro-Russian farmers-scarcely knew what to think. They heard that schools were being shut down for fear of epidemics: but no one was sick. It frightened them to learn that Joseph Stalin had notified Bulgaria he would do nothing to resist German penetration. When Premier Professor Bogdan Filoff, on the first anniversary of forming his Cabinet, filled the only important Cabinet post to their way of thinking (the Ministry of Agriculture) with a notorious pro-German, Dmitri Kuscheff, it bewildered them: had not shrewd Ivan Bagrian-off been eased...
...military men indicated last week that they now believed an attempted invasion of Britain might be no further than 60 days away. U. S. Chief of Staff General George Catlett Marshall and Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, who publicly doubted whether the British could successfully resist without U. S. assistance, both guessed April or May. General Marshall thought that by then Germany would be ready with 1,200 squadrons of bombers and fighters, would be able to keep 18,000 planes in action at once, with 18,000 more in reserve, and would have more than 42.000 pilots...
...assault against France her most effective propaganda slogan was: "England will fight to the last Frenchman." By dinning it into French ears day after day, week after week, German propagandists of the radio and the press planted suspicions which helped poison France's power to resist. Last week the propaganda machine of the Berlin-Rome Axis altered two proper nouns, tried out the old slogan again against the U. S. and Britain...
...Most people, whether students or not, tend to resist the idea that failure to reach goals or inability to make adequate personal adjustments may lead to illness, but the correlation appears to be high," Dr. Bock said...