Word: withstood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Club, which sang;* pretty, yellow-headed Patient Ann Smithers, age six, who won the right to sit at the President's table at the Thanksgiving dinner, gnawed a drumstick despite the fact that her baby teeth are falling out; the Georgia Congressional delegation, minus Senator George, who withstood the New Deal's purge. "There was no invitation for me to go," explained Senator George...
...rooms formerly occupied by Dolezal, Pat Lyons found crumbs of human blood between the floor boards, behind the bathtub. Arrested, Dolezal withstood 40 hours of questioning before he blurted...
...about the first five minutes Coach Skip Stahley's men withstood the terrific Green attack, but suddenly the defense collapsed, not to recover until the third quarter. The Hanoverian squad, paced by Jim Fuller and Captain Merriam, kept up a driving offensive throughout the match, and Harvard's fortunes sank from bad to worse in the second quarter when five points were chalked up against them...
...center of the day's fighting was Michalovce, which withstood a Hungarian siege while Hungarian and Slovak planes battled overhead. During one fight, in which 17 planes were engaged, four Hungarian and two Slovak planes were reported shot down and four other Slovak planes made forced landings. Two Slovak planes were still missing. Bratislava residents were tense with fear that their city would be bombarded, though Slovaks generally believe that this is unlikely since Germany probably would consider it a cause...
Only a remarkably sturdy constitution could have withstood the series of painful breakdowns which sapped the strength of Pope Pius XI for almost three years. His early love for mountain climbing and his simple manner of living kept him in excellent health until he was well into his seventies. But for the last three years the sick man of Europe has kept devout Catholics, as well as reporters and radio commentators, awake many a night as he spectacularly battled death...