Word: withstood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Former Navy Secretary John B. Connally (D) withstood a strong bid by Republican Jack Cox to win election to the governorship...
Nixon has zigzagged 18,000 miles across the state, most recently whistle-stopping from Santa Cruz to San Diego in a "Victory Special" train. He has squeezed some 163,000 hands, withstood 15 solid hours of more-or-less random questions from telethon viewers. He has livened his rallies with glamorous girls, organized everything from "Giant Fans for Nixon" to "Veterinarians for Nixon"-headed by the vet who cares for his dog Checkers...
...Crimson's inexperienced line withstood three assaults with impressive skill, but on the fourth Pat Clark traversed the one remaining yard to the end-zone to score...
...editor in the '30s and a LIFE senior writer in the '40s, Busch visited Japan to interview survivors of the disaster. Even so, he has had to pad his pages with ruminations about earthquake phenomena and Frank Lloyd Wright's design of the Imperial Hotel, which withstood the shock and created a legend that made the architect's international reputation. The legend neglected to point out that 99% of Tokyo's buildings actually rode out the tremors, if not the fire...
...Help. Since labor is jealous of surrendering any jobs, the Government's intervention does not always work-and sometimes results only in a compromise that prolongs an impossible situation. Thus, neither Continental nor United Air Lines has any problem with a third man. Without Government help, they both withstood strikes from the flight engineers without yielding, have since given engineers pilot training and trimmed their flight crews from four to three...