Word: withstand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...safety engineer wrote that it was impossible to protect against injury in collisions at 30 miles per hour. Now, just seven years later, the National Highway Safety Bureau has already tested successfully a prototype vehicle that can withstand impacts at 47 miles per hour, without injury to passengers wearing a normal should-erbelt. I think it is a disgrace and a tragedy that this prototype had to be developed by the Federal Government rather than by the automobile industry...
...sizable numbers in supposedly neutral lands. Hanoi's forces long ago took on the burden of the Laos campaign from the ineffectual, home-grown Pathet Lao. Neither the frangible Laotian regulars nor the lightly armed, CIA-backed Meo guerrillas of Laotian General Vang Pao have been able to withstand them. In Cambodia, it was North Viet Nam's freewheeling use of Cambodian territory that finally precipitated Sihanouk's ouster. With the U.S. withdrawal under way, Sihanouk grew increasingly alarmed that the presence of so many North Vietnamese and Viet Cong soldiers would encourage Cambodia...
Blest be the Muses who up-reared this band, Blet be the men who lend a willing hand, Blest be its members whom its laws command, And damn's be all others who would its cause withstand...
Larry Cetrulo, Rick Tolbert, and Emil Godfrey will start at the saber for the Crimson. None of the Elis are good enough to withstand Cetrulo, and they will have trouble with both Tolbert and Godfrey...
...positions. Sandy McAdoo, ranked sixth intercollegiately at the beginning of the year, is now playing at number two behind captain John MacColl. Although Princeton lost to Navy. 3-0, at six positions, MacColl and McAdoo completely outclassed their opponents in three games. While Harvard's Larry Terrell should withstand MacColl's threat, senior John Ince will certainly be hard pressed by McAdoo at number...