Word: resistless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poor Resistless Heart." From the money young Washington made at surveying, he bought more land, and took to gambling at cards. He accompanied his sick brother Lawrence on a trip to Barbados and picked up a case of smallpox which marred his face for life, but also made him immune to the disease that periodically sliced through his ranks during the Revolution...
...Gods why should my Poor Resistless Heart...
...population is destined to roll its resistless waves to the icy barriers of the north," said William Henry Seward 101 years ago. Twenty-one years later, he bought one of the Arctic marches-Alaska -for less than 2? an acre. He would have bought Canada and Greenland if he could. He tried to get Denmark's Virgin Islands, but was a half-century ahead of his countrymen. When the islands were bought during World War I, one of Seward's successors, bumbling Robert Lansing, tossed in a quitclaim to northern Greenland...
...hell, beast." More dramatic was a formal statement to be made on landing, with the name of a U.S. airfield to fill the blank: "I am chief commander on Japanese desant [descent] paratroop army. All the airdrome of [blank] has been taken tonight by the Japanese Army. It is resistless, so you must surrender. Answer yes or no. All the Japanese Army has done great attack...
...father rushes with resistless force...