Word: withstood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first week of the great push, five major Nazi strongholds fell: after Vitebsk (which had withstood two fierce Red assaults in the past year), Orsha, Mogilev, Bobruisk, Zhlobin. Nothing like this, in so short a time, had ever happened to the Wehrmacht before...
Sinews of a Nation. Coolie means "bitter strength." The bitter strength of China's coolie masses, as much as any other factor, had brought the nation unbowed 'to 1944's Double Seventh. China's soldiers (5,000,000 in all) had withstood hunger, disease, a continuous inequality of arms, commanders' inanition, retreat after retreat. Yet they had won notable defensive battles (Taierhchwang, Chang-sha), and had never finally given...
Rise Ahead? Both markets withstood the first shock of Dday, just as both had tumbled at the Fall of France in 1940. But otherwise, each had its own unfathomable methods of deciding whether news was good or bad. Typically, while the Japs were lopping off the Malay States and Singapore in early 1942, the New York market tumbled. The London market declined, but rallied quickly. And percentag-wise, it has climbed far higher than has New York...
...battalion in Italy made a gallant and determined stand against the Germans from a cave on the rocky road that runs north from Anzio. Cut off from supplies and fighting for a week without replacements, the battalion, in the words of New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Homer Bigart, "withstood the cruelest pressure any American unit has been called upon to face in this...
...days last fall, wiry, greying Colonel Gurtiev held the "Barricades" factory in Stalingrad. His division repulsed 117 tank and infantry attacks. It withstood 80 hours of steady pounding by German artillery. FT a total of 320 hours the Luftwaffe bombed it. Watching the flames shrouding 'the tortured factory, anxious men elsewhere in Stalingrad said: "Stepan Gurtiev, that's the man for you." Of his 50 years, Gurtiev had spent 28 in the army. His men loved him, but feared him too, for "Tovarish Commander" tolerated no flaws in training, discipline or valor...