Word: withstood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...head was challenging. The eyes were looking direct." Then and there, he made his choice between Churchill the benign and humorous and Churchill the uncompromising. "It seemed to me essential," Sutherland explained, "that Churchill should be portrayed with a certain degree of intransigence-with the moral fiber to have withstood the enemy...
...after long illness; in Boston. Small (5 ft. 7 in., 165 Ibs. in his prime), genial Outfielder Duffy batted a record .438 (for which he got a $12.50-a-month pay boost) while playing with the Boston Beaneaters (National League) in 1894, compiled a .330 lifetime average. His record withstood the assaults of such great hitters as Willie Keeler (.432 in 1897) and Rogers Hornsby (.424 in 1924), but Duffy modestly disclaimed any special knowledge of batting lore. "You just walk up there," he said...
...outside the nuclear reactor burst during dockside trials. Last week the Navy learned why. The General Dynamics' Electric Boat Division, which built the Nautilus, had mixed together seamless and welded pipes in its warehouses-and in the Nautilus. Weak welded pipes burst under pressure which would have been withstood by the specified seamless piping. Moreover, it turned out that piping was mixed up too in Electric Boat's second atomic submarine, the Sea Wolf, now abuilding. After a careful checkup, the Navy blamed the trouble not on sabotage but on carelessness. Electric Boat fired the man who slipped...
Getchell said that the high cost of the old posts prompted the action. Steel and concrete posts have previously been installed at Yale and Princeton with varying degrees of success. They have generally withstood post-game demonstrations, but on occasion have been known to fall, just like their wooden predecessors...
...Mans, no matter how much speed a car has, it must also be able to slow down to a crawl for the 90° turns-and do it quickly. Last year Cunningham & Co. saw the British Jaguars snatch victory from them with new disk brakes that withstood the 24-hour pounding without too much "fading," i.e., loss of bite. This week the third racing car in the Cunningham hangar was being fitted with a radical new set of liquid-cooled brakes whose specifications are still secret. This car, a Cunningham-V-12 Ferrari, is entered in the 200-mile President...