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Throughout the Alumni Stadium game Harvard showed an exuberance that withstood three go-ahead Eagle touchdowns...
Federally controlled levees along the Mississippi generally withstood the soaking, but a few were overtopped by high water. Along tributaries like the Missouri, St. Francis and Yazoo rivers, locally and privately financed levees and dikes were in many cases even less able to resist the increased pressure. President Nixon surveyed the flood regions from aboard The Spirit of '76 at the end of the week and pledged "full federal support for their recovery and rebuilding efforts." Even the eldest Mississippians could not remember such biblical rainfalls (57 in. since last October). Said one: "Everything that could be flooded...
Kissinger has withstood the bombing and the blood for over four years now, and his admirers were beginning to boast that he was made of sterner stuff than mighty Mac. Faced by limitless suffering, the Harvard man remained impassive. Why shouldn't his alma mater be proud of him? Why shouldn't he be welcomed back to Lowell Lec and the CFIA...
...expense is reckoned, the enterprise is begun; it is of God, it cannot be withstood...
...power in the past is missing here. After the first Broadway production of Henry IV (1924), Critic Stark Young suggested that it might simply be beyond the power of Anglo-Saxon actors. Maybe so. But the impression now irresistibly arises that this is one antique that has not withstood the test of time...