Word: withstanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will win enough seats to join with Southern Democrats and deprive moderates and liberals of ideological control. In California and Iowa, contests will have considerable impact on the complexion of the Senate that convenes next January. In both, liberally oriented Democrats could win if they attract enough votes to withstand the trend to Nixon. A look at the two campaigns...
...they are not so sure. Zond, it was revealed, re-entered the atmosphere on a simple ballistic trajectory, steep enough to heat the craft to levels that only instruments, not humans, could safely withstand. An article about Zond published in Russia made no mention of manned flight. It stressed the value of "automatic spacecraft" for lunar and planetary research and the return of "research materials...
...Supreme Court interprets it, the First Amendment commands American policemen to protect free speech. More important, a policeman who can ignore abuse is not only a good law officer, not only a moral victor, but a living symbol of a free society strong and calm enough to withstand any challenge. But this takes the kind of police and civilian leaders who respect the Constitution-and set the right tone for cops on the front line. Mayor Richard Daley hardly helped with his "shoot to kill" order after Chicago's Negro riots last April, or by implying before the Democratic...
...topple a brand-new high-rise apartment complex appropriately named Harbour House" is absolutely untrue. We have been advised by competent engineers and architects that our buildings are constructed on a solid foundation of hundreds of pilings, and the sea wall was designed and constructed so as to withstand every type of hurricane as well as the possibility of erosion. Our architect has reported to us that "if the Harbour House were placed out in the middle of the ocean on its present foundation and sea wall, it would not topple...
...Death," Hudson said, "is a gradual process at the cellular level, with tissues varying in their ability to withstand deprivation of oxygen. Medical interest, however, lies not in the preservation of isolated cells but in the fate of a person. Here the point of death is not so important as the certainty that the process has become irreversible...