Word: resister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some species the tufts are on the beetles' wing covers, in others on the insects' foreheads. The hairs are saturated with a glandular secretion that the females find impossible to resist...
...have his face cropped from pornographic pictures introduced at the trial. The minister in question submitted to an examination by a doctor "of the highest eminence," proving that his "physical characteristics differed in unmistakable and significant respects" from those of the duchess' nude friend. Lord Denning could hardly resist adding that he had obtained new evidence that "indicated who the 'unknown man' was. But I need not go into it here...
...species of mushrooms that grow in France, 39 are poisonous. This slight but real possibility of toxic consequence has little effect on the millions of Frenchmen who cannot resist aller aux champignons-tramping into the woods for mushrooms when the delicacies sprout, with particular abundance, during the first turning of the leaves. Last week, thanks to a wretchedly wet summer, the Gallic countryside was laden with a bumper crop-and some 45 persons were dead of mushroom poisoning. Countless others lay ill at home or in hospitals...
Residents of Bertram Hall, outraged at being sent from their own dining room into Briggs for lunch, Monday organized a boycott of the South House dining room. This effort to resist house dining appears to have collapsed, although Bertram still solidly opposes the change...
...versifier (and editor of an early rhyming dictionary) greeted Frost as a professional colleague and earned his ire. "Would he claim equality with me?" fumed Frost to Untermeyer, "more claimant than clement." With T. S. Eliot, Frost could not resist a further pun. "We both like to play," he wrote, "but I like to play euchre. He likes to play Eucharist...