Word: withstood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eliot pulled its goalie out and used a desperation 11-man attack in the fourth quarter, but the Lowell defense, led by Captain Curt Greene and halfbacks Charlie Martin and Pete Johnson, withstood the assault...
...astronauts themselves withstood the strains of flight and re-entry splendidly. Though they had been cramped into a half-sitting, half-lying position for eight days, they managed to do a couple of deep knee bends in the pickup helicopter, hopped nimbly onto the deck of the Lake Champlain and walked without wobbling. NASA doctors aboard the aircraft carrier probed the astronauts' ears, looked down their throats, poked their chests, listened to their hearts, took their pulse, sampled their blood and made scores of other medical measurements. The first medical findings: the astronauts were in "wonderful shape...
...vertical position. The sudden jolt induces symptoms of orthostatic hypotension. The doctors wanted to see how long it took for the astronauts' systems to recover from the jolt, and to compare this with the length of time it took in preflight tests. Time after time, the astronauts withstood the test without blacking out. After only five tests, their recovery rates had returned to normal...
Understroking the Yugoslavs for much of the race, the Crimson stepped up the pace to 40 as the boats reached the 1600-meter mark 400 meters from home. They opened up a gap of more than a length, and withstood a power burst at 44 by the Yugoslavs with 200 meters...
...Crimson player Chum Steele played some fantastic tennis to rally over sharp-serving Charlie Hoevier, 1-6, 6-3, 6-4. Dave Benjamin (two) withstood four match points to take the third set 7-5 over Dartmouth's Bill Kirkpatrick. Richie Friedman (five) won the day's honors with a 6-0, 6-1 win over Jerry Dericks. Harvard's lone loss came in the number one doubles...