Word: withstanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only question here is whether Yale's pass defense can withstand the aerial attack of Brown quarterback Bob Hall. The Elis turned in a surprising performance last week, and almost held powerful Colgate to a scoreless tie before blowing the game in the final minute of play...
...then both she and Russell sued G.M. They also brought suit against the local Corvair dealer and the U.S. Rubber Corp., which had manufactured the car's tires. Against G.M., they made two charges: that the Corvair's doors and door handles were too weak to withstand the pressure of a rollover, and that because of a poorly designed rear axle, the rear wheels tended to tuck in and lose all traction in a swerve...
...Fire, his eighth novel. His prose at times is hauntingly Biblical. His description of Jewish farmers battling a locust swarm is so vividly and sparely done that the reader can all but feel the crunch of the crawling vermin underfoot. And his protagonists, growing almost against their will to withstand stresses they never imagined, will not be easy to forget...
...Kraft credits as the man most responsible for his development as an aeronautical engineer and flight-test conductor, his first project was to help build a quarter-scale model of the X-1 to be dropped from a B-29 at 35,000 ft. to determine its ability to withstand the stresses of breaking the sound barrier. Rigged with sensitive instruments, the model measured and relayed the effects of near Mach 1 to engineers huddled in a couple of old trailers−one of the first uses of the telemetry that was to become so important in space-flight control...
...company will also construct new oxygen furnaces and blast furnaces, at least two continuous casting lines, finishing facilities and light structural steel and bar plants. The ambitious program is intended to replace the last of U.S. Steel's collection of obsolete equipment, better enabling the company to withstand the assaults of more modernized U.S. and foreign competitors, the inroads of substitute materials such as aluminum and plastics and the ever-present specter of rising labor costs...