Word: withstood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meet the test of war and had to be changed in the first year. Admiral King and his quality of inward hardness neither failed nor changed. The Navy's judgment of him, of what he could do and of how he would do it, was one judgment that withstood the fires...
...rounds. O'Brien batted 21-year-old Middleweight Stanley Ketchel around for eight rounds in 1909, when O'Brien was 31, and was then knocked cold. "I had heard," he reminisced later, "that Ketchel's dynamic onslaught was such it could not readily be withstood, but I conjectured I could jab his puss...
Except for the loquacious Durwood, who protested at this "sleeper pray," Saturday's stalwarts had little to say, and even Forte who withstood the attentions of screen star Constance Moore last spring at a House dance, was at a loss for words. Miss Edgerton-Bird's questions, most of which dealt with the player's thoughts during vital plays, drew shy responses, and Russ Stannard, toughest of the Crimson linemen, lost his voice entirely...
Lowell had threatened in the first period, when, paced by Dick Sorlein, it drove to the Lowell 15-yard line, but the Business withstood the thrust. From there on, it was all Leverett
...sneering criticism that self-righteous circles bestow upon the Snap Course. However the intellectual snobs who glorify work for the sake of work have failed to observe the indispensable role which the Snap plays in American arts and sciences; were it not for this role, it would hardly have withstood the test of time so well...