Word: withstood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Houston Oilers withstood a furious-New England rally in the final momemnts to edge the Patriots. 38-34, in the Astrodome last night...
Soft-spoken Irishman Colin Ball withstood back injuries to place second, and London neighbor Gus Udo chipped in by winning the long jump to give Crimson a solid lead...
...will buy a lot of car batteries. But, is it worth it? Muhammad Ali is no longer the fighter he once was. A young and enthusiastic Cassius Clay, with the quick hands and feet that never touched the canvas, has become a chunky Muhammad Ali. The stomach muscles that withstood the barrages of Floyd Patterson, Sonny Liston, Joe Frazier and George Foreman now hang over his belt. The face which had never been cut, unmarked all these years, was split open in a sparring session last week. Time has taken its toll...
Then why did it not leave a crater? Anders explains that if the meteorite was of the stony type, rather than one made up mostly of iron, it could not have withstood the enormous forces created by its fiery plunge through the atmosphere. It would have exploded before impact, scattering particles over a wide region. The explosion would have produced a fireball and intense shock waves that battered everything on the ground below. Where did the meteorite originate? Slovak Astronomer Lubar Krésak has suggested that it was a chunk of Comet Encke, a periodic visitor to the earth...