Word: withstood
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...lakeside town in which a knight's wife was staying--and the Crusader force, frying in heavy armor and unable to fight its way to the water, was overwhelmed by the Muslims. When the Christian knights retreated to the coastal fortress of Tyre, Saladin turned his army inland. Jerusalem withstood him for less than two weeks. In stark contrast to the earlier Crusader bloodbath, his occupiers neither murdered nor looted. "Christians everywhere will remember the kindness we have bestowed upon them," he said...
...Crimson shocked the Big Green, 66-59, last night at Lavietes Pavilion. Leading 58-48 with 4:12 remaining, the Crimson withstood a furious Dartmouth run that cut the lead to 58-57 with two minutes...
Also recently, she withstood a challenge when Roman Catholic Cardinal Bernard Francis Law '53 wrote a private letter to Governor A. Paul Cellucci, expressing his concerns that she might have an anti-Catholic bias. Law was concerned because during her time as Harvard's General Counsel, Marshall reprimanded a Catholic professor at the law school for expressing anti-abortion views on Harvard letterhead...
...withstood the challenge of the tour's freshman 50- and 51-year-olds who have won more than a third of all senior tournaments, and he scoffs at the notion that age 55 is the limit at which a golfer can compete for senior-tour leadership. "That's hogwash," Irwin says. "The age of 55 is now going to be pushed to 56, 57 and 58, because players are more in shape and more attuned to the keen competition...
...boys know how to make good music. Unlike other popular bands of the past and present (ahem, Aerosmith, Rolling Stones, Cranberries et al.), every one of R.E.M.'s albums has some redeeming quality. No synthpop or electronica experiments to be found! Even better, all of their earliest albums have withstood the test of time and sound fresh and new today...