Word: resistant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just as aggressive was the Party platform which promised to: oppose all war loans and credits to the warring imperialist powers; stop the sale and shipment of munitions and armaments to the belligerents; resist the militarization and armaments program of the Administration and Congress...
...present battle was history's greatest and most decisive, but the Allied Commander fighting it had also fought history's last two "greatest battles," both desperate actions: at the Battle of the Marne where Weygand saw his chief resist the distraction caused by German pressure on his centre and his left flank, to concentrate on attacking; at Warsaw where in 1920 he himself took command of the Poles, threw back the victorious Reds and kept the tide of Bolshevism out of Europe...
...have observed with sympathy your editorial efforts to resist the hysteria which is rising around you. Certainly you have not had much help from your elders, who have chosen to deny the realities of the last twenty years and to return to the exhilarating days of 1917. They have shown no hesitation in turning the classroom into a camp, the lecture hall into a recruiting station. That minority of the faculty which disagrees has been more scrupulous--too scrupulous, I think--and the time has come when we too should speak our minds. It may come as something...
...bear the juggernauts' weight. Between planes overhead and the clanking mastodons on the ground, radio contact was kept up constantly. Timing was worked out to a matter of seconds. Fire-power of the break-through tanks was several heavy machine guns, plus light cannon. Their armor could resist any fire short of 75 mm. at all ordinary ranges-a fact which nullified the French defense plan of 25 mm. anti-tank guns arranged in depth. Once through, the break-through tanks sought only to smash up all anti-tank weapons in sight, then to plunge ahead...
...Norway, indomitable old King Haakon, a refugee within his own country, broadcast another appeal to his people to resist, gave no sign that he would flee abroad...