Word: withstanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...race for the U.S. Senate; and Henry Kaiser, particularly, has been giving the Dillinghams some stiff new island competition. To such challenges Lowell Dillingham brings a remarkable personal tenacity. An amateur horticulturist, he decided to grow quality apples in Hawaii, where only mediocre ones have been able to withstand the heat. When the first tree died from the heat, Lowell ordered refrigerated coils and wrapped them around the second young apple tree. It died, too-but Lowell is still pondering other ways...
...election time, and Zanzibaris nervously barricaded themselves behind the huge brass-spiked doors installed in their houses long ago to withstand the battering of elephants. In the British island protectorate off the east coast of Africa, voting can be dangerous. The last Zanzibar election, two years ago, ended in bloody race riots with 68 killed. The violence was caused by a deadlock between the Nationalist Party, which is led by Zanzibar's land-owning Arab minority and the Afro-Shirazi Party, which claims to represent the interests of the African majority. Both parties won ten seats in the legislature...
According to Haiti's constitution, a President cannot succeed himself. Although his term legally expired on May 15, President Francois Duvalier remains in office. Like most of his predecessors, Duvalier is averse to following constitutional requirements. But it is doubtful whether even his fierce tenacity will be able to withstand the foreign hostility to his regime much longer...
...Stead Air Force Base near Reno, Commandos learn to withstand Communist interrogation techniques by spending six hours in an isolation cell, half an hour in a cramped black box. In basic training at Florida's Eglin Air Force Base, they are given a tattered piece of parachute from which to fashion shelter, then left to make shift in a swampy area for 3½ days. In the Panama Canal Zone their jungle training is enlivened by tarantulas and real but friendly Indians, who pursue them, try to steal their hats as a symbol of having slain them. The Commandos...
...toughness of the human heart and its ability to withstand intrusion had made a deep impression on Brigham Surgeon Dwight Harken during World War II, when he removed shell fragments from servicemen's hearts. His main postwar concern has been with heart valves, especially mitral valves that have been damaged by rheumatic fever. In 1948, he was one of a few bold surgeons who first dared to slip a finger, with a tiny surgical knife at the tip, into a beating heart to separate the leaflets of a mitral valve partly closed by scarring...