Word: withstood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Explaining the necessity of this acceleration of production, the letter points out that despite Britain's recent successes in Albania and Egypt, her position still remains critical. "Bombings and submarine attacks are taking a steady tell of British resources," it states, "and Germany's military might cannot be withstood without a greatly increased output of planes, shipping, and supplies in this country...
...Hitler has not yet been withstood by a great nation with a will power the equal...
...improvement on the first: a more aggressive Louis, less befuddled by his ring mate's antics; a more upright Godoy, less bent on self-preservation. For six rounds, iron-jawed, oak-legged Godoy, his left eye dripping blood from a first-round bombardment, stuck close to his adversary, withstood his short-range punches. But, in the seventh, he succumbed. In the eighth, Godoy was knocked down again for a count of eight, and a few seconds later, still charging crazily like a wounded bull, collapsed from exhaustion...
...when a suspension of virus was mixed with equal amounts of hand-soap or a fatty acid solution, allowed to stand for 90 minutes, and injected into scores of normal mice, none of them came down with flu. In fact, said the scientists, once vaccinated, the mice easily withstood huge doses of straight virus...
...this film version of a Pulitzer prize play is an authentic, moving account of how a sluggish rail-splitter turned President. Hollywood has withstood the temptation to be spectacularly patriotic; and the result is one of those rare historical pictures which are devoid of all furor and fuss...