Word: withstood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heaviest losses in weeks. In one day the Dow-Jones industrial average plummeted 15.42 points, biggest break since President Eisenhower's heart attack in 1955. The slide was accelerated by the fact that when the average eased through the previous 1960 low of 599.10, which had withstood two previous onslaughts, a storm of selling was touched off. At week's end the average was down to 585.20, lowest level in 19 months...
Degenerate Matter. Though seemingly incredible, these figures for the Companion have withstood all attacks, and astronomers, particularly Dr. Luyten, have since found many white dwarfs even smaller and denser. The current theory is that they are stars that have burned nearly all their hydrogen, turning it by nuclear fusion into helium and heavier elements. With the hydrogen gone, the star contracts. As its mass concentrates into a smaller volume, its gravitational field increases in power, eventually growing strong enough to compress the material near the star's center into "degenerate" matter whose electrons and nuclei have been pushed close...
...visit to Antioch, Peter (prodded by James) withdrew from the table that Paul shared with Gentile converts. The incident, with its implication that his Gentile converts were second-class Christians, prompted one of Paul's bursts of anger. "I withstood [Peter] to the face," he writes in Galatians 2:11, "because he was to be blamed...
...favorite uncle, who used to lie in bed with a .22 pistol and shoot flies which gathered on the ceiling to eat the jam he had smeared there. Footmen stood by, Sanders recalls, with champagne, ammunition and more jam. After his family fled to England, Sanders easily withstood a British public-school education (Brighton College), got a job with a South American cigarette company, but was thrown out when he pinked his mistress' fiancé in a revolver duel. A bounder, but not yet a villain, Sanders returned to London and developed a low opinion of singers by briefly...