Word: withstood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Redmond earlier taught in and helped administer Kansas City schools, served as assistant superintendent and then purchasing director for the Chicago schools from 1948 to 1953. He is proudest of his 1953-61 term as superintendent of the New Orleans schools, where he coolly withstood pressures and insisted that school integration begin...
...11th round, Clay really opened up with every shot in his arsenal, scoring regularly but damaging little. Chuvalo, shooting for more haymakers with each round, withstood the head attack with some body returns of his own. In the 12th and 15th, he landed several solid punches to the challenger's head but could not inflict permanent damage...
...tempting a source of kickbacks for police and politicians to really want to stamp it out (cops assigned to the bicho squad are known as "jockeys" because of the good rides they can get). Highly organized, deliciously complex and by its own lights unfailingly honest, the animal game has withstood all manner of crackdowns and shakedowns, grown into a $500 million-a-year business that employs roughly 1% of the nation's total working force. Millions of Brazilians play it every day, and almost all have at least a nodding acquaintance with their local bicheiros...
...Richard M. Nixon, who has withstood the mudslings and arrows of outrageous fortune and remains No. 1 choice to lead rank-and-file Republicans...
Orange Scintilla. A few pinpoints of light shone through the all-enveloping shroud. Many areas of Vermont, with nearly 30 individual utility companies, withstood the tide. New Hampshire went black in only two heavily populated western sections. The Lake Placid, N.Y., resort area was saved by the grandiloquently named Paul Smith's Electric Light & Power & Railroad Co. A local generator kept New Haven, Conn., aglow. Such isolated Massachusetts communities as Holyoke, Braintree and Taunton never lost a watt, and windswept Nantucket Island, 30 miles off Cape Cod, kept going with a private power system installed...