Word: withstanding
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...really transparent plastic window pane, which will withstand the explosion of a 150-lb. bomb eight feet away, has been developed by Monsanto to end the danger of flying glass during air raids. The pane is made of 16-mesh wire screen sandwiched between two sheets of cellulose acetate plastic. It can be easily mounted in standard window frames...
...Russians were weak enough, so weak that they passively relinquished what they could not defend. But the Japs were as yet none too strong, certainly not strong enough to withstand the U.S. diplomatic pressure which was soon turned upon them. Because of this pressure, they withdrew their armies, returned formal sovereignty over the invaded territory to Russia, kept some trading concessions-and never forgave the U.S. Once again, just as in the earlier Russo-Japanese War's aftermath, the U.S., all unknowing, had indelibly-imprinted itself in Japanese minds as an enemy of Japan in Asia...
...myself, during these past months, have had plenty of time to survey the ruins of a life's work as an architect might regard, after an earthquake and fire, the ruins of a great building he had conceived and endeavored to erect with a solidarity that might permanently withstand the elements. Alas, the castle has crumbled about us. It is not a happy vision...
...reassurance that things had not gone worse on a front from which news had come chiefly in complaints about the weather that sounded suspiciously like alibis. But still unanswered, even by implication, were such questions as: 1) Can the Japs be dislodged soon? 2) Is Alaska strong enough to withstand an invasion...
...nonviolence is the only thing we can rely on. Of course we can't prevent invasion: the Japs will land, but they will land on an inhospitable shore. We do not need to kill a single Jap; we simply give them no quarter. We may be unable to withstand their terror and may have to go through a course of subjection worse than the present state, but we will carry...