Word: withstood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meantime, the Foreign Secretary visited Blackpool to defend the negotiations before a turbulent Conservative Party conference. Heckled and jeered by pro-Rhodesia right-wingers, Carrington withstood their demands for an immediate lifting of sanctions and pledged not to allow "any party to unilaterally determine the outcome of the London conference." Carrington's speech received a standing ovation and his position prevailed in a conference resolution; it called for an end to sanctions and recognition of the breakaway colony "as soon as practically possible...
Down 3-2, Dartmouth withstood the shadow-like defense and kept feeding the ball to McKeel. Twice in a row McKeel demonstrated her stick mastery by eluding the Crimson's elaborate double-teaming and sending in tallies with her dependable right-handed shovel shot...
Freshman Charlotte Worsley will start at goalie today. Worsley, an offensive player in high school, withstood stiff competition in the pre-season, but proved herself a tough-thinking player...
CRIMSON SPLASHES: Retired Harvard star Liz Kelly's record of 5:03.03 in the 500-yd. freestyle withstood a strong test Thursday as the 1979 winner in the event just missed the mark by one-tenth of a second...The 29-point total, though leaving Harvard well behind the leaders, could be the start of the women's finest showing of the year with the Crimson women turning in some strong individual times...
...course of the decade, synthetic sex came a long way from the first models, the inflatables and the hand-windups, to the prototypes with thermostats and feedback. The originals of these copies are long dead, or else are now decrepit crones, but teflon, nylon, dralon, and Sexofix have withstood the wear of time...