Word: withstood
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With Open Eyes. Marmer began his experiments by hypnotizing a 13-year-old boy, found that he withstood the rigors of a heart operation (to enlarge a pulmonary valve narrowed at its base), and recovered without complaining of pain. Then Marmer moved on to a more difficult case: a girl of 14 who had the disadvantage of being deaf, so that a hearing aid had to be used to communicate with her. After several trial runs, he hypnotized her on the morning of the operation, then gave her light chemical anesthesia. When her heart and lungs had been bypassed, their...
...swampy with perspiration and his voice faded away to sandpaper hoarseness; of a heart attack; in Cambridge, Mass. Sometimes known as the man of "girth and grins," the roly-politician was one of the canniest who ever sat on Beacon Hill, built up a formidable personal machine that almost withstood the Eisenhower landslide of 1952, when Republican Christian Herter won the Massachusetts governorship...
Back to Work. A basically soft and kind young man, a devout Buddhist who abhors seeing any of his people suffering, Sihanouk has been through many changes of heart. The whole world cheered the way his representatives at the 1954 Geneva Conference withstood Communist attempts to subvert Cambodia by treaty. Then he fell under Nehru's spell, and hinted darkly that U.S. aid ($120 million in three years) was being used as a device to take over Cambodia. He welcomed Chou En-lai to Pnompenh last November -but then became alarmed at the Communists' evident strength in Cambodia...
...Wharton withstood a challenge from teammate Jim Cairns to win the 440 by nearly five yards in 49.2 seconds. Al Gordon finished third to give the varsity its lone sweep of the afternoon. Wharton later came back to edge Dodge to win the 220 in 22.1 seconds...
Wasting Victory. For a moment after the humiliating forced withdrawal of Britain and France, Nasser seemed stronger than ever. He had withstood, at least for a few days, two of the world's greatest colonial powers, and he had all Europe squirming in the economic pinch of the blocked canal. But the victor of the November crisis has not fared well under the wasting pressures of its aftermath. The blocked canal has cost Egypt heavily in revenues and business dependent on its traffic; Port Said is an economic wasteland and its citizens in an ugly mood. Egypt...