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...Word for the Word was at the birth of the beginning It made the Heavens and the Earth and set them spinning, And for several million years It's withstood all our forums and bad ideas...
Bella Abzug might dismiss that last part as sexist condescension, but then again she might not. For all her rhinoceros qualities, she is deeply feminine (pace, Women's Lib) and, as former Campaign Manager Doug Ireland says, "vulnerable as a lady." She recently withstood withering political satire at a correspondents' dinner but burst into tears when someone mocked her robust figure. Arthur Goldberg is said to have won her over once by remarking that her pictures did not do her justice...
Hussein has already withstood considerably more than mere words. Last September, when the guerrillas were openly defying Hussein, the King's army ran them out of Amman in a fierce battle. Ever since, he and Jordanian Premier Wasfi Tal have been planning a final showdown with the guerrillas, holed up at bases near 'Ajlun and Jerash in the hills of northwest Jordan...
...nearly 20 years this mark [the former one] had withstood the efforts of the world's best. Many youths with sinews of steel have sought to wipe it off the book and write their names in sport's Hall of Fame with one gigantic effort, but, while some have approached it, none ever bettered it until here this afternoon when the Crimson trimmed husky fairly catapulted himself up and beyond the dust-covered figures two decades old. Incidentally, he won the 100-yard dash also...
...Crimson's best race of the day came in the 880, where Dave Elliott and Bob Clayton took first and second. Elliott and Clayton led throughout the race and withstood a challenge from Princeton's Jeff Weil just before the final turn...