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Word: withstood (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Playing at the number one position, Hamm defeated his old nemesis, Gary Tobin, who had whipped him earlier this year in a holiday tournament. Tim Gallwey withstood the smashes of Ephman Ed Fleischman to win in the second slot. Gerry Emmet, Pete Lund, Fred Vinton, Tony Lake, Wally Stimpson, Vic Poletti, and Kent Allen also registered victories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hamm Leads Varsity To Squash Win, 9-0 | 1/15/1959 | See Source »

...must now regroup the heroic people who withstood the witch hunt and unite them with labor," Wohlforth declared. "Then the American working class will, at last, be organized on the political level, and we socialists will be in our world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Socialist Editor Says Battle With Capitalism Will Be Fought Here | 12/12/1958 | See Source »

...Month Stockpile. A big reason for Western steadiness was that West Berlin is a far more prosperous and populous community than the naked city that so desperately withstood Stalin's 1948-49 blockade. Business is booming, the hammering sounds of construction fill the air, the shell of a new Hilton Hotel is rising near the sleek shops of the Kurfurstendamm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pressure at Berlin | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...ROSCOE DRUMMOND: THE overriding political fact is that the Republican Right wing was decimated. Wherever the Republicans lost, it was almost uniformly the extreme Republican conservatives who fell by the wayside. Wherever the Republicans won, it was almost invariably the Republican liberals-the Eisenhower Republicans, the "modern" Republicans-who withstood and in New York turned back the Democratic avalanche...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDGEMENTS & PROPHECIES: THE ELECTION: A POST-MORTEM | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

...Frank Lloyd Wright, 89, summering at his home and workshop in Spring Green, Wis., recoiled from photos of a ten-story addition to Tokyo's Wright-designed Imperial Hotel, said the annex' streamlined "International Style" was "neither international nor style." The labyrinthine Imperial, completed in 1922, had withstood the great 1923 Kwanto earthquake, while much of Tokyo fell to rubble. World War II's firebombings did not destroy it. But now, according to Wright, "Westernization" had effected what war and seism could not; there was no imagining "a more outrageous insult to the feeling and character...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 11, 1958 | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

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