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Word: resistless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Virginians | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...Gods why should my Poor Resistless Heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Virginians | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Deepfreeze Defense | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Desanters | 12/18/1944 | See Source »

...father rushes with resistless force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: History in Doggerel | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

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