Word: withstood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bailey was thrown off- balance when Fuhrman steadfastly withstood a grueling interrogation. Even when Bailey rumbled into the "nigger" line of questioning, Fuhrman calmly responded that he had not used the epithet in the past 10 years. Nor did Bailey come up with a plausible explanation of how Fuhrman might actually have planted the bloody glove. "Bailey created such expectations, and he did not deliver," says Laurie Levenson, a professor of criminal law at Los Angeles' Loyola Law School. "Maybe he didn't have the right ammunition...
...Indiana withstood a late New York charge to win, 99-91. NBA and NHL recap. Page...
...idea that the men who stormed Iwo Jima and withstood the Kamikazes are creatures too tender to tolerate analysis of the war they fought is more than patronizing. It is intellectually dishonest. The vets would have welcomed analysis of the Pacific war that was minimally accurate, that gave due attention to Japanese depredations and American sacrifice, that was not corrupted by such revisionist nonsense as the suggestion that we might not have dropped the bomb on Nazi Germany because Germans are white. The issue is not that veterans cannot stand analysis but that the analysis offered by the Smithsonian...
...Bears withstood Harvard's fierce charge and determination; and in the game's closing minutes, walked away smiling and with a victory...
Chen's friendships and his faith have sustained him through challenges that others might not have withstood. Even more, they have led him to believe that those trials aren't what is significant about his life at all, important than the ordinariness of activities like practicing the guitar or and studying the Bible...