Word: withstand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Down to the Deep. In barely seven years, De Long has built a multimillion-dollar business helping oilmen explore offshore fields with massive mobile barges that can be rooted to the ocean floor solidly enough to withstand the most violent storms. Five De Long barges are already drilling in the Gulf of Mexico; another has just started operating off the coast of California; still others abuilding are slated for South America and Southeast Asia, generally at rents of $6.000 a day, including equipment. Starting with a maximum depth of 50 ft., the company has learned to build mobile rigs, that...
...state funds from any school district that defies the state by mixing races. Like other moderate segregationists, Lawyer Dalton believes in district-by-district supervision, a plan that would inevitably admit some Negro students to white schools (e.g., in the Washington suburbs of Arlington and Alexandria), but can ultimately withstand court tests better than the Byrd strategy of massive resistance. "Massive resistance," he argues, is a "massive myth leading to massive retreat and massive surrender." Underscoring Dalton's analysis, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (Virginia, West Virginia. Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina) last week ruled...
...cigarette as a nipple substitute. Its psychologists found just what was needed at the preconscious level: "Americans smoke to prove they are people of virile maturity. They see smoking as proving their vigor, potency." This, explained Social Research, "is a psychological satisfaction sufficient to overcome health fears, to withstand moral censure, ridicule, or even the paradoxical weakness of 'enslavement to habit.' " Youngsters who smoke are trying to be older, the MR men concluded, and older people who do so are trying to be younger...
Worn down by continuous Dartmouth threats in the first half, the defense couldn't withstand the increased pressure of the Indian attack in the last half, and gave way for seven goals in the third period and four in the last...
...Cornell University under new $1,000,000 Air Force contract. School will build hypersonic wind tunnel and high-temperature research apparatus, test models at 15 times speed of sound and temperatures close to sun's surface (10,000°F.). Biggest job: to develop metals that can withstand such heat...