Word: withstood
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Close to the canvas himself in the third and seemingly helpless in the fifth, Clay entered the sixth round obviously stronger than the 31 (sic)-year-old Liston. Clay was never hit with the full impact of Liston's awesome left hook, but he withstood considerable punishment and retained the speed and deceptivenss which rendered Liston sluggish and frustrated by the sixth...
There were heroes for Princeton, too. Frank Satterthwaite withstood some torrid shotmaking by Johnny, Vinton and won in four games. In one of the day's biggest surprises, sophomore Bert Gay whipped Alan Terrell, 15-11, 15-10, 15-11 at number five. And Jim Lemons blanked Peter Brooks in the ninth match, 15-11, 15-12, 15-11. The Tigers played superb squash all day long, in every position. Harvard just had a bit of luck, a bit of good playing, and John Francis
...Lions, consigned to seventh place in the league by most experts, grabbed a 12-point halftime lead and withstood Princeton's second half rush. The Tigers' phenomenal All-American Bill Bradley scored 32, but none of his teammates even got into double figures...
...million worth of fighter and attack jets landed on this island and were greeted by high winds and dirt. There was no place to sleep, let alone a place for the mechanics to work on our planes. Yet within a few hours, two huge geodesic domes were constructed that withstood all the elements as well as providing hangars for our planes as serviceable as pur own back at El Toro, thus proving that delicate, multimillion-dollar jets could operate out of primitive conditions like those in South Viet Nam, or anywhere else in the world...
Early in the third period Minnesota's captain scored the last Gopher goal. Forward Treadwell, assisted by Baldy Smith and Crimson's fourth score 4 minutes later. With less than three minutes left. Minnesota pulled their goalie, and six desperate Gophers moved in on Harvard goalie Brandy Sweitzer who withstood the storm, making one brilliant save...