Word: withstood
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Last month, Bruce Springsteen played two sold-out benefit concerts for the magazine, saving it from near-certain financial ruin. In the intervening years, DoubleTake had won numerous awards, moved its headquarters from Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies to Somerville, Mass., and withstood public complaints and legal threats from contributors who waited years before being paid...
Jackson rewarded the thousands who withstood the bitter cold to watch him with a rousing speech...
...jumped all over a stunned Harvard squad in the game’s first minutes to open up a 3-0 lead, then withstood a furious rally by the No. 15 Crimson to prevail 4-3 in front of a raucous sellout crowd at the Bright Hockey Center Saturday night...
Friday night against Columbia (10-11, 3-5), the Crimson went into halftime with a 39-29 lead and withstood an early second-half surge by the Lions to cruise a 28-point...
...imported aluminum tubes were designed for rockets, not for use in nuclear-processing plants. Powell personally grilled CIA experts on the tubes and was told that U.S. intelligence had spun some of the intercepted tubes at the extreme speeds required to enrich uranium. Rocket tubes would have shattered--these withstood the strain. The discussion of the tubes was a high point in a performance that took almost 1 1/2 hours. When it was over, Powell had done about as much as any member of the Administration could to convince the world that Saddam was cheating the inspectors, hiding weapons...