Word: resisted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since last year's Economic Report was designed mainly to head off massive antirecession pump-priming by the Government, the President took gentle pleasure in a sort of I-told-you-so: "The events of the last 18 months show again the considerable capacity of our economy to resist contractive influences and to hold a downturn within fairly narrow limits...
France's Prewar Politicians. "To resist events, they affected to be unaware of them...
...billion in assets, the great bulk of it stocks. Another $12 billion in stocks is held by other institutional buyers such as insurance companies and pension funds. Even such stiff-collared investment bankers as Lehman Bros. and Lazard Frères went into the fund business, unable to resist the clamor for shares. Lehman originally offered shares worth $37.5 million; demand was so great the issue was boosted to $198 million. Lazard also first thought of $37.5 million, sold $127.5 million...
...thus "a permanent obstacle to the effectiveness of totalitarian rule in Eastern Germany." What is needed, Grewe concluded, is "a cool head, strong nerves, unity and mutual confidence among the allies and, with regard to the Soviets, preparedness for every reasonable talk, but, if necessary, preparedness to resist...
Breakfast at Tiffany's, by Truman Capote. Hardly anyone could resist the ribald appeal of Holly Golightly, one of fiction's most endearing bad little good girls...