Word: withstood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bank in an unnamed inland spot to store its choicer small fossils, a collection of rare Brazilian birds, type specimens of a pygmy elephant, a West African crocodile, etc. The Museum's dinosaur collection, world's best, is not being hurried to safety. "The dinosaurs have already withstood a 200,000,000 year blackout," said a fossil expert, "and they ought to survive the war. Besides, if they are bombed, it might be fun putting them back together again...
Coach Al McCoy's Yardling basketeers fell to their second opponent of the season Saturday afternoon when the Andover quintet withstood a fourth period Crimson rally to chalk up a 51 to 41 victory. Jim Duden dropped shots from every conceivable angle to account for 21 Phillipian points...
First flaw came with the storming of areas where hard cores of prepared Russian resistance ruled out tanks as a major offensive weapon. Odessa fell only after a fierce, brutal fight; Leningrad, encircled, has withstood over four months of siege; Moscow threw back three gigantic offensives...
...gave it no horns or sting or a brave heart. What can be said about an armed man who lies on his back as soon as an enemy appears? Such people are called cowards. . . . Manila could have resisted the enemy like Leningrad, Sevastopol, Moscow and Tula. It could have withstood a siege like Tobruk. The hardships and miseries would have been compensated abundantly by the glory to the people and the exhaustion of the enemy's forces...
Chungking withstood its 33rd bombing of the 1941 season last week. Of 135 Japanese planes that swarmed over Szechwan Province, 27 blasted the capital. Chinese huddling stoically in their shelters could tell by the way the earth shook that this raid, like those of the last few weeks, was as heavy punishment as the Japanese could inflict...