Word: resistible
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Trenton, muscular Governor Harold Giles Hoffman, who had sworn to resist the Sit-Down with "the full resources of the State," leaped to the rescue of Thermoid's involuntary sitters, had State troopers convoy a truckload of food and bedding to them. When the sheriff declared himself unable to enforce a court decree ordering the strikers to stop interfering with the company's operations, Governor Hoffman dispatched 30 blue-clad State troopers to stand guard...
Would she resist taking an oath of allegiance to the U. S. constitution as a professional? "No", she emphasized, throwing back her black hair, "I have nothing to complain about; I am an American through and through...
Unable to resist the call of a spring twilight, the Gold Coasters turned out at 7 o'clock last night for the annual Plympton Downs Sprints to the tune of bouncing beer and ale cans. Traffic on Plympton Street was halted, as students let the empty cans roll down to the finish line at the intersection of Bow Street...
Fetching his wife, he brought her to the pianist and said: "Here, my dear Clara, you will hear music such as you have never heard before; now begin the piece again, young man!" In a few minutes Schumann could not resist praising the genius and foretelling a brilliant future for him. For days he repeated to his friends: "One has come from whom we may expect all kinds of wonders. His name is Johannes Brahms...
...first name "Albert." Victoria had tried to get the future King Edward VIII christened with Albert as his first name, and the future King George V had managed to tuck it in second, but after the way Queen Victoria had been annoyed on Dec. 14 it became impossible to resist her will and the baby became "Prince Albert," later "Prince Albert, Duke of York" (premature headlines even made him "King Albert" upon the abdication of Edward VIII). Since it happens that "Albert" is a name the English simply do not like, the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin had the Royal Family...