Word: resisting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thing, fluorochemicals are unusually stable. Unlike the organic chemicals, which are often inflammable or explosive, they resist decomposition by heat, chemical reagents or ultraviolet light. They are not attacked by bacteria or fungi. Some of them are very strong acids, others are so inert that they make fine fire extinguishers...
...American in Paris. A buoyant, imaginative musical, as hard to resist as its George Gershwin score; with Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron (TIME...
...American In Paris (MGM) is a grand show-a brilliant combination of Hollywood's opulence and technical wizardry with the kind of taste and creativeness that most high-budgeted musicals notoriously lack. The Technicolorful result is smart, dazzling, genuinely gay and romantic, and as hard to resist as its George Gershwin score...
...shall vigorously resist any attempt to conceal the facts from the American people. We shall defend to the utmost the fundamental right of free, unlimited discussion of controversial questions of government...
...Gerontological Congress in St. Louis gave that kind of back-pat last week: people do get more fatheaded. In the aged, reported Dr. Oskar Vogt of Neustadt-Schwarzwald, Germany, most types of nerve cells in the brain show cavities filling up with fat. The cells themselves fight the invasion, resist most successfully when the individual keeps active. Concluded Dr. Vogt: "We have observed no case in which overwork was found to have accelerated the aging of the nerve cells...