Word: withstood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Agar's political study takes its impetus from the Revolution and the formation of the Constitution (which he interprets politically as Beard does economically). He then goes on to trace the development of a second, "unwritten" constitution-a compound of political compromises and "bargains" which withstood every problem of national life in the nineteenth century but one, the Civil...
...preparing to sing a performance of Peter Ibbetson in Detroit when the phone call came: Met Manager Herbert Witherspoon had just fallen dead in his office, and the trustees wanted Johnson to succeed him. It was a job he never regretted taking. In 15 years, Manager Johnson had withstood roars of rage from all sides; but even his bitterest critics would admit that, when the books of the Johnson era were closed this May, there would be more written in black than in red. He had taken over a depression-ridden opera company and kept it going through hard times...