Word: withstood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...important, Virginia's Republican Party, given impetus by the influx of new Alexandria-Arlington voters, has developed into a bona fide political force: Dwight Eisenhower twice carried the state, the first time by 80,000 votes, this year by 122,000; Virginia has two Republican Congressmen who have withstood the test of off-year elections; Democratic incumbents were hard pressed in three other districts this year; Republican State Senator Ted Dalton received more than 44% of the vote for governor in 1953. Expected to run again next year, he may threaten the organization's hold on Richmond...
...Away from It, a revival of Frank Capra's 1934 Oscar-winning It Happened One Night, has withstood the ravages of time better than most. In its first release, the Samuel Hopkins Adams story of a runaway heiress (Claudette Colbert) and a jobless reporter (Clark Gable) who follows her movements with somewhat more than professional attention, was a sensation-and not only at the box office. It set a style of furiously farcical social satire that, during the rest of the decade, relieved the general depression with some of the wackiest, wittiest comedies (Nothing Sacred, Mr. Deeds Goes...
...Oregon, cold-eyed Wayne Morse, 56, the maverick ex-Republican marked as the G.O.P.'s prime target in the Senate races, withstood the Western Eisenhower surge, to defeat, by more than 20,000 votes, Ikeman Douglas McKay, who had resigned as Secretary of the Interior at Ike's urging to take on the bloodiest senatorial battle in Oregon's history...
...drab campaign, Massachusetts former Democratic Congressman Foster Furcolo, 45, dramatically withstood the Eisenhower landslide, buried a Christian Herter-Eisenhower Republican, Lieutenant Governor Sumner G. Whittier, under a thumping plurality. Furcolo's chief campaign asset: energetic support from popular U.S. Senator Jack Kennedy...
...goner," said President Anastasio Somoza to U.S. Ambassador Thomas Whelan the night Somoza was shot down by a 27-year-old gunman (TIME, Oct. 1). "They got me this time, Tommy," he added. Rushed from Nicaragua to the Canal Zone, the 60-year-old strongman withstood a four-hour bullet-removing operation and later a windpipe incision to ease his labored breathing. But he never fully regained consciousness in the U.S.-owned Gorgas Hospital. Late last week, just seven days after the shooting, he began to sink fast. A few hours later, as he had foreseen, Tacho Somoza...