Word: withstood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pigs, on Cuba's south coast, a force of 1,300 wellarmed, well-trained anti-Castro freedom fighters last week launched a major campaign to rid their homeland of Communist dictatorship. They were defeated within two days by a better-armed, better-led enemy, who withstood their attack and delivered a crushing counterblow. The defeat, as all the world sensed, was a tragedy not only for Cuba's exiles. It was a debacle for the U.S. as well. Through the offices of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon, the U.S. had done everything to assure success short...
...lose to Columbia Saturday, an early Lion rally that routed starter Dick Garibaldi, withstood a late assault by the rejuvenated Crimson hitting power...
...varsity's attack, on the other hand, forced Bulldog goalie Ted Forstmann to come up with 45 saves, many of them on shots made at point-blank range. Forstmann withstood perfectly a rather hectic minute and a half when overlapping penalties in the second period left his team two men short, but undid all his good work a few moments later with a leg-slide that kicked in a Crimson shot which otherwise would probably have missed the cage...
...Crimson basketball team withstood an invasion by a vociferous rooting section, 11 cheerleaders with polkadotted panties, and four freshmen who played the final five minutes to defeat Brandeis 71-57 at the IAB last night...
...high is the morale of Polaris submariners that most of them have withstood not only the temptations of private industry (almost every Polarisman has been offered civilian work at higher-than-service pay) but also the strains on family life. After each 60-day patrol, crews will be flown home for 30 days of leave; then they will get 30 days of refresher training before they take up their underseas stations once more. "What difference does it make if you're away half the year?" says one resigned submariner. "Whether you get along with your wife...