Word: withstood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Count of Alcázar de Toledo, Falangist hero of one of the most celebrated battles of the Spanish civil war; of a heart attack while shaving in bed; in Madrid. As commandant of Spain's West Point, the Alcázar of Toledo, Professional Soldier Moscardó withstood the 67-day Loyalist assault on the ancient fortress-castle with some 1,100 soldiers and civilians, was finally relieved by a Franco army after Loyalist troops had hurled more than 6,000 4-in. shells and 4,000 6-in. shells against the fortress, mined its rocky base with...
...Yardling hockey team withstood a last-period opposition rush yesterday, and defeated Malden Catholic High School, perennial New England power, 5 to 3, in a Watson Rink game. The freshmen are now undefeated in their last ten outings...
...Tiger's Dick Zwirnor, running strongly pulled out into the lead approaching the last mile. Throughout the last mile he successfully withstood the continued assaults of Jim Schlaeppi of the Crimson--until the last ten yards...
Colonel Mattingly and Hagerty arrived from Washington in a driving rain, and shortly thereafter Hagerty read a bulletin stating that the President had withstood the heart attack well...
...opened three months after the start of World War II, Houghton was described as "Fire-proof, earthquake-proof, and reasonably protected against the incendiary bomb." The age of nuclear weapons may have increased Houghton's vulnerability, but it has not diminished the value of a collection that has withstood three hundred years in the Yard...