Word: withstand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like the Gaither committee, virtually abandoned the blast-shelter idea in favor of fallout shelters. Reason: radioactive fallout, with all its dangers, can be fought; it comes as a delayed reaction of nuclear explosions, produces aftereffects more slowly. Explains a committee member: "A fallout shelter, of course, would not withstand a direct hit, but it could be any one of a number of things-from a rigged-up basement in the ground covered by dirt to the kind of steel-and-concrete thing you could put up in your backyard." Cost for a system of fallout shelters would run upwards...
Dudley threatened several times by penetrating inside Eliot's twenty yard line, but never managed to score. The Elephant defense held firm on their eight to withstand Dudley's deepest effort...
Teller has another fear pertinent to the day of H-bomb attack: that the U.S. is overlooking one of the best methods of discouraging attack. Such preparation, he wrote in This Week, lies in building underground air-raid shelters deep enough to withstand the impact of the heaviest bombs. "They would be expensive but. . . I believe we could save the lives of most of our citizens. In out-of-the-way places we should build other shelters to protect food supplies and our industrial resources. We could store weapons for our armed forces. We can make sure that we retain...
Aware of these facts, some U.S. cities have not done too badly by their airports. Boston's Logan International Airport has the longest main runway (10,022 ft.) of any commercial field in the U.S., no tall buildings on the horizon, well-compacted runways that can withstand almost any amount of pounding. It has a new approach lighting system for safe, sure landings in bad weather, and a big, decentralized terminal that minimizes the passengers' ground time, which many experts say may be 25% of all air-travel time in the jet age. The Massachusetts legislature has also...
...leases, he went to U.S. Steel Corp.'s Consolidated Western Steel Division, asked it to stretch a huge cable-and-bucket rig from the caves to the canyon's south rim, where the guano could be trucked to market. Specifications: the cable must be strong enough to withstand 100-m.p.h. gales, the bucket big enough to cart 3,500 lbs. of guano in one scoop...