Word: resistent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Retirement in Triumph. Costantini's greatest coup was brought off in 1936, when he copped a copy of a highly confidential report of the British government, which declared that "no vital British interests exist in Ethiopia which would impose on His Majesty's government the necessity to resist by force the Italian occupation." Mussolini ordered the report printed in his official Giornale d'ltalia. There was consternation in Whitehall. But Whitehall's new vigilance did not uncover Costantini himself, who stayed on in the embassy, unsuspected, performing his tasks for another year before retiring...
...went for four years-another $1,000 for his royal robes, a deposit of $2,500 on a gift of $5,000 "for the Lord himself," still more for a parcel containing King Solomon's throne from Elijah's cave on Mt. Carmel. Barzilai could not resist taking a peek and was chagrined to find nothing but stones. Naturally, said Barti, the angels had changed the throne into stones because the package was opened without permission...
Only in the last five years has the Australian administration brought the Fore under regular supervision (it rates them "semi-controlled," meaning that they usually resist the temptation to plunge a spear into a patrol officer's back). A year ago the government sent Dr. Vincent Zigas, Estonian-born district medical officer, into the Fore country to investigate kuru. Appalled to find that the disease is invariably fatal, Zigas hurriedly shipped blood and brain specimens from victims to Melbourne's famed Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, hoping that the laboratories would find a virus cause for the disease...
Largely because of this, Cornell is generally acknowledged to be the premeet favorite, but those who have watched other allegedly "underdog" Crimson squads upset the odds time and again in recent years, cannot resist the feeling that the varsity may do it again today...
That Left-Out Feeling. Even if the Russians should resist this temptation, the prospect of a U.S.-Soviet ICBM standoff gave Europeans a nervous, left-out feeling. "The two big boys," said an official of West Germany's Defense Ministry, "must in the very nature of the situation lift their eyes and look straight across at one another, not noticing the in-betweens like ourselves so much. The arrival of long-range rockets implies the devaluation of American bases abroad and hence the downgrading of places like Germany. As a concomitant, one must assume less interest in such suddenly...