Word: resisting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...avoid being blown to rubble, the report suggests, U.S. buildings should be redesigned to meet the specifications of strict codes used in earthquake regions. At present most are designed to resist a wind pressure of 20 lbs. a sq. ft. To give reasonable security against an atom bomb explosion half a mile away, this should be raised to 90 lbs. a sq. ft. At times of atom danger, all windows should be made of wire-glass and lined with heavy wire mesh to catch large flying fragments...
...sexual desire without restraint, it is not to be expected that they will fit into a pattern of stable married life without a struggle . . . What comes cheaply is not valued highly. But even more important, when a man knowingly deviates from the moral law, his ability to resist further temptation is weakened. Habit and the memory of sin are not easily effaced...
Barkley in unabashed and happy rebuttal. "Since I got married, such people as Clark Gable, Mayor O'Dwyer, Dick Tracy, Miss America and even the Methodist bishop* who married us have caved in-and I don't believe Sam Rayburn can resist much longer...
...wellbeing. A gain in weight often results from the treatment: one tuberculosis patient, who had been in & out of hospitals for 20 years, put on 26 Ibs. in four months. Used with streptomycin, PAS is invaluable in keeping down the development of strains of germs which have learned to resist streptomycin. The drug, conclude the doctors, is so promising that it should be tested more widely...
...with something more. She adores animals; so the book becomes an ark of cats, dogs, horses and oxen which almost outnumber the human population. She has a fondness for the supernatural; so the book is aclog with fairies, a white witch, magic herbs, and vervain brews. She cannot resist a legend, so several of them weave and wind in a fine confusion through the novel...