Word: resistant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...going to resist it," Texas' Senator Tom Connally promised grimly. "The Mannerheim Line will not even be a starter...
...Jerome Frank which you ran on your front page this week is atrocious. You try to make him out as an ogre. I have met him and he is a very charming and handsome man. Your story on him is a mixture of reluctant fairness and failure to resist your general temptation to belittle big men who try to render a conscientious public service...
...answer to recent proposals that vocational education be introduced at Harvard, the statement reiterated the position taken by last year's Council report, that "the colleges should resist all temptation to buckle down to the standards of the market place and the professions...
...Retail Merchants' Association sent a committee to persuade Dr. Ball to promise to go easy on the Authority. It was a stiff kind of pressure for any local editor to resist. Editor Ball drew himself up and said: "I have my own opinions and will stick to them...
Perhaps it is too easy for us, behind the safety of the Atlantic tides, to say to an invaded country: "You are folish. You should not resist. You cannot win." Perhaps it is too easy for us to forget what freedom and homeland means, we who have not felt the boot of the tyrant for so long. Perhaps the cynicism which followed the First War has blinded us to the flesh-and-blood emotions which the peoples of Europe are feeling. And yet most Americans have heard the news with a sort of relief, a relief that the futility...