Word: withstood
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Wright's best known work, the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, withstood the great Japanese earthquake but has partially succumbed to U.S. bombings. War department officials last week reported that the Imperial's central auditorium is now completely gutted...
Britain's coalition Government, which had successfully withstood the stress & strain of war, showed signs of collapsing under the pressure of peace. This week 1,100 delegates of the Labor Party, biggest (170 seats) opposition group in Parliament, met at Blackpool. The chief question before them was: whether to accept Prime Minister Winston Churchill's invitation to stay in the Government until the Japanese war is won-or to quit the coalition forthwith. The answer was emphatic. The conference voted unanimously to quit. Party wiseacres promptly predicted that Mr. Churchill would ask the King to dissolve Parliament...
Kweilin's defenses were the best the Chinese had mustered since Hengyang (which withstood siege for 41 days). The city had miles of barbed wire entanglements; pillboxes fashioned from torndown buildings. It had the best fed, best armed, best uniformed soldiers remaining among China's tattered legions. For commander it had bald, white-gloved General Pai Chung-hsi, one of Kwangsi Province's best, fresh from talks with Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. To aid Pai, General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell sent every ounce of U.S. small arms, mortars and ammunition that could be spared from the tonnage flown over...
Bloody Nose is a mile-long cliff, pockmarked by limestone caves, on which artillery and bombs had little effect. In these caves Japs had stored light artillery, mortars and machine guns. In front of the caves they had built concrete blockhouses which withstood 14-inch naval shells. Pillboxes, even those which had been pulverized, still contained live Japs...
...year-old battle honor shared by six regiments: the wearing of a rose on Aug. 1. That day is the anniversary of the Battle of Minden in the Seven Years' War, when those infantry regiments, outnumbered, plucked roses in the field on their way to battle and withstood the charge of the French cavalry, despite frightful losses, to carry...