Word: withstood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Temporary Hardship." Ten miles outside of Tatung, a city of 80,000 that withstood a 45-day Communist siege, lie the Kouchuan coal mines and power plant-one of the biggest enterprises of its kind in North China. The Communists took Kouchuan last August, were driven out Oct. 31 after a mild skirmish. They left the same pattern of destruction as in Kalgan: machine shops ruined, foundries and lathes demolished, burned-out roundhouses full of burned-out locomotives, hand tools and hardware broken and scattered in the dust...
...tank-trap, while Jap machine-gunners literally ripped them apart. The other rifle platoons stormed their way onto a nearby point of the island-and found themselves cut off. When, at last, relief came and Captain Hunt and his handful of men staggered back to the beach, they had withstood three terrible counterattacks and killed more than 500 Japs...
...Middle-Aged. With variations major and minor, the same bathetic, woeful, touching story was being enacted last week by thousands of other U.S. husbands & wives. Like Albert and Josie-Lee, many were over 30, many had children, most had been happy before the war. But they had not withstood loneliness or temptation or big money, or the contagious recklessness of the times...
around their bank they had woven a legend of imperishability. It had withstood run after run, from at home and abroad (the French revolutionaries tried a week-long run in 1793). In 1780 it even withstood fire; London mobs, led by the maniacal Lord George Gordon, stormed it with torches. But the mobs were stood off by soldiers and clerks, who melted inkstands into bullets...
...bank nun." Until 1924, the bank occupied a low, fortress-like pile dominating London's City, was known as The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street. (Despite its ponderous look, a workman once found his way from the street through building cracks and into the bullion room.) It withstood the bombs of the Luftwaffe...