Word: withstand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Portlanders do not profess to know what will happen, but a dominant feeling among them is one of faith in the American governmental system and its ability to withstand any shock...
...high hopes for saving Skylab contrasted sharply with the earlier gloom that settled over the space community. Barely a minute after Skylab's launch atop a surplus Saturn 5 moon rocket, tiny sensors on the arms of the shield alerted flight controllers to serious problems. Apparently unable to withstand the intense vibrations after liftoff, some and possibly all of the thin shielding around Skylab's Orbital Workshop section suddenly ripped free. As it tore away, it apparently caused one of the twin solar wings on the Orbital Workshop to extend prematurely...
...Vietnam tried men in other ways. Was courage charging a machine gun or saying no to a wrong war? Or was it merely wise endurance of an insane environment? Four years later, O'Brien is still unsure. "I was brave in one sense," he says. "I had to withstand all that crap of training. In that sense I did all right. On the other side of the coin is the moral question. If I had to do it all over, I probably wouldn't go. But back in the 60s, there were all sorts of social pressures...
Then came Watergate, its grimy details surfacing bit by bit, first tainting Magruder, then destroying his hopes of high office and honors. It was a cruel fate for a man who had developed almost everything except the kind of character to withstand the temptations of power at the highest levels...
...could the people of Vietnam withstand this continual bombardment? Vo Nguyen Giap, the North Vietnamese defense minister, explains their resolve by citing a poem written by a 16-year-old girl. "She dedicates her life to Vietnam in this poem, and then she is killed in a bombing raid," Giap says. "Our people have her dedication...