Word: withstood
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Under Jenkins' velvet exterior, though, ripples a thick political hide. As Aviation Minister in 1965-he became Home Secretary the same year-Jenkins withstood heavy Tory fire for canceling construction of three new types of planes and insisting that the British aviation industry reorganize. He firmly believes that the British people will accept sacrifices, provided that these will bring a "sharp break with the weaknesses of the past." The British learned a little bit more last week about just how much they will be asked to sacrifice. Partly in order to get a $1.4 billion credit from the International...
...there remained the single strongest tactic available to the UFWOC: the boycott. While strikes are easy to overcome in unregulated industries, a national boycott of the producers' goods can only be withstood for a relatively short time. The scandalous publicity and economic loss of a boycott brought Schenley to its knees a year...
Axten, making his first varsity start, quickly recovered and withstood stronger pressure by revitalized Tufts in the closing minutes...
...will not win the Preakness tomorrow. Sure, he is almost certain to go off the favorite, and favorites win 33 per cent of the races. Sure, in the 19 years since the Triple Crown was last won, ten horses have swept two of the three races. Sure, Proud Clarion withstood a sizzling pace and a sloppy track in his face to run the last quarter in an incredible 24 seconds. Sure, his is the classic rags-to-riches story of which heroes, if not champions, are made. I know. But I don't like him anyway...
Russell was not awed. At the age of two he had said of Robert Browning, a man who had stayed to dinner: "Why doesn't that man stop talking?" and later withstood the awful eye of Prime Minister Gladstone as the original Grand Old Man asked after dinner: "This is very good port they have given me, but why have they given it to me in a claret glass?" After unanswerable questions like that, Bertie developed the confidence he needed to decide that New ton's calculus was "a tissue of fallacies" and to begin his historic collaboration...